BOINC Client Virtual Machine Setup

From the boincClientVMSetup.txt readme file

Setup a new debian vm a vboxapp
During the Debian install process I only created a root user, with root as a password.
Setup to use UTC time
ext3 formatted drive mounted at /
only the one partition, no swap, boot, etc... Give it a lot of RAM instead
This procedure assumes that only the root user exists and there is no sudoing/chown/chmod required

Change the following value to zero to speed up boot in /etc/default/grub

GRUB_TIMEOUT = 0

Then run "update-grub" from the command line

Append the following lines to /root/.bashrc
Give the user time to Ctrl-C in order to make changes to the vm before it finishes loading

!/usr/bin/bash
echo --- BOINC VM Starting
sleep 5

echo --- Mounting shared directory
mount -t vboxsf shared /root/shared
if [ $? -ne 0 ]; then
   echo --- Failed to mount shared directory, does /root/shared exist? If not, press Ctrl-C and create it in the VM now...
   sleep 5
    shutdown -hP 0
fi

echo -- Launching boinc_app
if [ -f /root/shared/boinc_app ]; then
    cd /root/shared
    ./boinc_app
    shutdown -hP 0
else
    echo --- Failed to launch script
    sleep 5
fi
shutdown -hP 0

Install mingetty to allow automatic login by running "apt-get install mingetty" in the command line
Then change /etc/inittab from
"1:2345:respawn:/sbin/getty 38400 tty1"
to the following line
1:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty --autologin root --noclear tty1

goto ffmpegBOINCvmSetup if you want to install the video encoding libs/apps