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



Great, thanks for the info.  Now the million dollar question... how hard is it to set up a Condor cluster?  Do you know of any how-to docs that would help step me through it?

Thanks again!

On Dec 13, 2007 11:47 AM, Jason Stowe <jstowe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Bryan,
Yes, and you can start using it with VMware. Condor 6.9.4 and up support the VMUniverse. You can download 6.9.5 off this link:
http://parrot.cs.wisc.edu/v6.9.license.html

-Jason

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On Dec 13, 2007 1:30 PM, Bryan Richardson < btricha@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Excellent... :)  Is Condor 6.9.x out yet?
>
>
>
> On Dec 13, 2007 9:38 AM, Ian Chesal <ICHESAL@xxxxxxxxxx > wrote:
> >
> > > 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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