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

["Michael P Smith" <msmith@xxxxxxx>]

Thanks John and Matt,
Any thoughts about how much effort your *nix users had changing their
jobs to run with cygwin?  Was it mostly a straight recompile or a large
porting effort?
Best regards,
Mike


> -----Original Message-----
> From: condor-users-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:condor-users-
> bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Kewley, J (John)
> Sent: Monday, March 05, 2007 9:25 AM
> To: Condor-Users Mail List
> Subject: Re: [Condor-users] Unix jobs on Windows PCs
> 
> 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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