Re: [Condor-users] About starting a Virtual Machine...

[Matthew Farrellee <matt@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On 06/22/2010 09:06 AM, Daniele Fetoni wrote:
> Hi all
> 
> I am a student from Università degli studi di Perugia.
> I am quite interested in condor capabilities about submitting VM, in
> particular I want to know just one thing.
> If I have, for example, 2 PC with 2 cores each one, can I submit a VM
> (using KVM) to condor requiring 3 cores?
> I need this in order to create a cloud over clusters, and maybe condor
> should be useful.
> 
> I apologize for the stupid question, but I want to be sure of this
> software capabilities before using it.
> 
> Just another question. There is a condor roll for Rocks 5.3?
> 
> Thanks for your time
> 
> Daniele Fetoni

Both Condor and KVM will let you do this. I think you can theoretically go up to 64 or 128 vcores per a physical core. I've only tried 16 though.

Best,


matt