[Condor-users] Condor and VMWare

["James Osborne" <osborneja1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi All

I run a windows xp condor pool.  I have VMplayer installed and a Suse Linux
image with condor installed ready to go.  I can send a windows condor job to a
given physical machine and get it to fire up the virtual machine (I know this
because a number of log files are created in the vm's folder), however the
virtual machine dies for some reason - I think it might be due to the fact that
GUI output is redirected by condor - or it's a problem with vmplayer.  I thought
I would ask here first to see if anybody else has found a solution to this
problem. I want to be able to support multiple virtual machines on a physical
machine to support a number of my users with requirements involving custom vm's
for their applications.

Thanks in advance

James

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Dr James Osborne, BSc (hons), PhD
High End Computing Support Engineer
Information Services, Cardiff University, 50 Park Place, Cardiff CF10 3AT,
Wales UK
Tel: +44(0)29 2087 4657
Fax: +44(0)29 2087 4285
Email: osborneja1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
Web: http://www.cardiff.ac.uk/insrv/condor