Re: [Condor-users] "vm_cdrom_files = a, b, c" : How does this work?

[Johnson koil Raj <johnson.raj@xxxxxxxxx>]

Rob wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have a pool of WIndows XP Condor pool PCs, which have VMware 1.0.6 installed.
>
> I want to submit a condor job as a VMware image with a linux OS (ttyLinux).
>
> I'd like to use this feature of "vm_cdrom_files = ...", but I don't understand how this works.
> The manual says:
>
> ---- quote --------------
>
> A CD-ROM for the virtual machine is composed of a set of files.
> These files are specified in the submit description file
> with a comma-separated list of file names. 
>   vm_cdrom_files = a.txt,b.txt,c.txt
>
> If these files are not on a shared file system visible to
> the machine that will run the vm universe job, then
> Condor must also be told to transfer them from
> the submit machine with 
>   vm_should_transfer_cdrom_files = YES
> ---- end-quote -------------
> Basic questions I have are:
>
> * How do I set up the configuration of the CD-Rom in the VMware virtual machine?
>   

> * Once the virtual linux system is up and running, how can it access the cdrom files?
> Should it mount the CD-Rom? On the linux system, the boot message has:
>           hda: VMware Virtual IDE Hard Drive, ATA DISK drive
>           hdb: VMware Virtual IDE CDROM Drive, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
> Should I then do "mount -t iso6990 /dev/hdb /mnt/cdrom" to access the condor cdrom files?
> I've tried this, but it doesn't seem to work......
> If condor wraps these files into an iso image (does it?), then how can I tell the VMware
> configuration to use a not-yet-existing iso image for the CDrom???
>
> Thank you!
>
> Rob.
>
>
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