Hi everyone,

I am currently trying to find a solution for the following issue.

I'm running BOINC 8.0.4 on two Mac OS computers, one of which being a M4 Pro Mac Mini which I also use for gaming. As this also involves Windows games, I use Parallels Desktop with a Windows 11 Enterprise VM environment.

In order to free up as many system resources for gaming when I am in the Windows VM, I have set Parallels as an exclusive app. From what I can tell, though, BOINC processing is not paused when I have Parallels running, so it doesn't seem to recognise the executable file.

I have read several older threads here concerning similar examples, which suggest manually adding the Unix executable to the cc_config.xml file. According to Activity Monitor, this seems to be a file called prl_client_app within the Parallels Desktop app package.

How exactly would I have to format the exclusive_app and exclusive_gpu_app entries for the .xml file?

Many thanks,
Dom

You can do it similar to this

<cc_config>
    <options>
        <exclusive_app>cl.exe</exclusive_app>
        <exclusive_app>link.exe</exclusive_app>
        <exclusive_app>vcpkg.exe</exclusive_app>
    </options>
</cc_config>

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