Re: [Condor-users] Unix jobs on Windows PCs

["Matt Hope" <matthew.hope@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 2/28/07, Michael P Smith <msmith@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi all,
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> First, my apologies if this is too broad for this list.
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> We're looking into setting up a Condor flock using the machines in our
> public labs.  These machines run Windows.  We'd like to run Unix jobs on
> these boxes.  We're looking into things like running virtual Linux machines
> on these Windows boxes and other options.
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> Is anyone out there doing something like this?  If so, could you tell us
> what kind of configuration you have?  Are you doing virtual machines,
> Cygwin, or other options?

We make use of cygwin in a very limited context (essentially for the
bash scripting capabilities and having some standard *nix tools
available)  and it works fine so long as the cygwin binary directory
is in a standardized location. I agree with the others that the VM
idea is vastly superior if you can deal without the load/activity
feedback. Perhaps a hawkeye module could feed that info back into the
associated vm's class ad?

Matt