Rosetta Back?

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I checked #1 tonight and saw a VirtualBox window was open, which concerned me at first since I hadn't seen that for a long time. It turned out to be a Rosetta WU, first I've seen in months. Get them while they're available if you're interested, who knows how long this batch will last.
 

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I did a work check and found some issues. The VirtualBox job had timed out and been sent to another machine, where it also timed out. I aborted it as it turns out the deadline is 24 hours and I'll never return any of those in time. Unfortunately they don't allow you to choose which apps you run in the project preferences, there's no way to not run VB work so I have set to NNT. (Technically there is, I could uninstall VirtualBox or set up an app_info file to exclude it but that comes with its own set of problems, it's easier just to not run the project).

It looks like these new apps are also taking up a lot of disk space, I'm getting messages about projects needing more space and I haven't had that happen in years. I'm going to have to get new hardware before running this one.
 

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I have returned seven VB tasks. I don't see excessive resources being used in Task Manager on Windows 11 Pro. One VB task and 19 Beta 6.04 tasks are using 10.4 GB RAM (total system usage, not just Rosetta). None of the Rosetta tasks are using as much RAM as Spotify or my browser.

Edit: I am now running two VB tasks and 18 Beta 6.04: 14.8GB RAM. I have 32GB total.
 
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Gandolph1

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Would it even be possible to run these virtual box tasks on a Raspberry Pi 5? The CPU only tasks crunch just fine on my Pi's, and I have to believe it would be painfully slow, but it might be fun to try....
 

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The message I'm getting relates to disk space, not RAM use. That would (should) flow to the swap file if it fills up although I don't want that to happen. This is from YAFU but the message is the same.

YAFU for small composites needs 810.75MB more disk space. You currently have 1096.60 MB available and it needs 1907.35 MB.

I could increase the limit but I really need a larger and newer drive.

It's very unlikely any virtual machine is going to run on a Pi, at least run very well if it's even supported. The CPU also has to support virtualization, for Intel that's the VT-x extension and AMD-v for AMD. I have no idea what the equivalent is on a Pi, if it exists. A quick search only brings up results for emulating the Pi on a computer so I doubt that it's possible.
 
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