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

["Kewley, J \(John\)" <j.kewley@xxxxxxxx>]

I too have tested cygwin.

One warning - make sure that cygwin is installed for "All Users" otherwise
the cygwin executables won't be found for the user that the condor jobs
run as.

Cheers

JK

> On 2/28/07, Michael P Smith <msmith@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> >
> > Hi all,
> >
> > First, my apologies if this is too broad for this list.
> >
> >
> >
> > 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.
> >
> >
> >
> > 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
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