I have had problems with BOINC (8.0.4) manager crashing and or freezing under WINE. Having previously run a test to compare the output between a WINE installation and one under Windows in a VM I decided to move it all to the VM for Windows work.

First I removed the already present Windows installation to start with a clean slate. I then did a fresh install of 8.0.4 in the guest OS. (Win10). I then moved the data folder from the wine installation from the host to the guest OS.

I can report that everything is working, including uploads and reporting of work despite the change of name of the computer from Swarm to Tiny10.

Clearly this swap is between machines of identical hardware.

On the original WINE install, I could have just kept going using command tools to manage the client as that seemed unaffected.

Today I noticed one stalled task where the estimated completion time was in the past. Pausing computation and then restarting the client got it going again. I know in this scenario they often crash. I do not know whether the stalled task had anything to do with the swap or not.

Edit: On WCG the VM installation is still called, "Swarm" while here on CPDN, it has changed to, "Tiny10."

On the one that stalled, about 2% more progress and stalled again. Will wait till the others finish before trying stopping the client and restarting but I suspect I will need to abort.