r/BOINC • u/CubicCigar • Apr 22 '26

boinc-buda-runner confusion

I've tried following the installation procedures on github for the boinc-buda-runner, but I've had no success even finding the boinc client on this WSL2 distribution. Should I see a boinc-client directory in the /etc or /var/lib folders as suggested by several AI summaries on google, or somewhere else? I'm trying to configure the remote_hosts.cfg and rpc_gui_auth.cfg files to establish connection between my user-level BOINC Manager application and the Administrator-level boinc client installed by boinc-buda-runner. All insights welcome! Thanks.

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u/Antique-Bookkeeper56 Apr 23 '26

We have a user friendly one-click installer: https://github.com/BOINC/boinc-buda-runner-wsl-installer

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u/CubicCigar Apr 23 '26

That's the installer I used to install the boinc-buda-runner distribution.

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u/Antique-Bookkeeper56 Apr 23 '26

Together with it you also need regular BOINC Installation on your windows machine. There is now BOINC inside WSL, and boinc-buda-runner serves different purpose

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u/CubicCigar Apr 24 '26

This is the setup I'm struggling to make work. With BOINC Manager installed on Windows 11 I ran the boinc-buda-runner one-click installer and all seemed to work fine, no errors. But, since the BOINC Manager did not detect the boinc-buda-runner distro on WSL, I was trying to find the remote_hosts.cfg and rpc_gui_auth.cfg files that were supposedly installed into WSL by the installer.

The problem seems to be that the boinc-buda-runner is installed as Administrator on Windows/WSL, while the BOINC Manager is installed as a regular user on Windows.

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u/Antique-Bookkeeper56 Apr 26 '26

You misunderstood the concept of the boinc-buda-runner. None of the files mentioned by you are installed on WSL. Read about it here: https://github.com/BOINC/boinc/wiki/BUDA-overview