Re: [Condor-users] Using Condor as Host for VMWare Virtual Machines

["Ian Chesal" <ICHESAL@xxxxxxxxxx>]

> I'm trying to determine if Condor would be a good solution for me.
> I currently have a bunch of older, slower machines in my lab that
> I want to somehow cluster together such that I can host multitudes
> of VMWare virtual machines.  Currently, each individual machine is
> only fast enough to host at most one or two virtual machines. 

I personally haven't had a chance to play with all of this yet but
Condor is very quickly becoming a VM-friendly tool. Check out this
presentation from Condor Week 2007:

http://www.cs.wisc.edu/condor/PCW2007/presentations/yoon_vmuniverse.ppt

Condor can launch jobs under VMs for you. And as with all Condor
installs you can tell Condor "only run X number of jobs concurrently on
this machine". So you get to tell each machine now many concurrent VM
sessions to allow.

I am very much looking forward to clearing some time in the new year to
play with this. The thought of being able to run my pool on *one* OS and
provide my user's with many Oses and variants via VMs seems like grid
nirvana right now.

- Ian


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