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Message 116879 - Posted: 17 Sep 2025, 13:15:29 UTC

When I install podman according to the instructions on the BOINC website on Ubuntu 24.04, docker becomes available for use, but virtualbox is no longer detected. Is this expected behavior?
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Message 116881 - Posted: 17 Sep 2025, 16:46:00 UTC - in response to Message 116879.  

I was able to fix this by uninstalling the version of virtualbox from the Ubuntu repo and instead using the official Oracle repo.
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Message 116908 - Posted: 20 Sep 2025, 14:41:30 UTC - in response to Message 116879.  

In reply to Filter0186's message of 17 Sep 2025:
When I install podman according to the instructions on the BOINC website on Ubuntu 24.04, docker becomes available for use, but virtualbox is no longer detected. Is this expected behavior?

Yes, podman/docker and virtualbox are incompatible (generally speaking they are both fighting for the one resource: virtualization, and since only one of them can use it, the other will not work, and since containers (podman/docker) are by default on a lower level that VBox, when podman/docker is installed and running, VBox will not work or will work in software emulation mode that is extremely slow).
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For any insight, check my BOINC Development Blog.
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Message 116909 - Posted: 20 Sep 2025, 15:02:38 UTC - in response to Message 116908.  

Oh I see. In that case, I'll uninstall virtualbox. Thank you.
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Message 116936 - Posted: 25 Sep 2025, 5:33:26 UTC - in response to Message 116881.  

Ah, thanks for sharing! — glad to hear it worked for you.
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