Re: [Condor-users] Independent configuration of VMs

["Erik Paulson" <epaulson@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 1/15/08, Ian Chesal <ICHESAL@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >   I have a question about the possibility to configure Condor
> > virtual machines to have different settings. In particular, I
> > would like to assign separate 'Execute' directory for each
> > machine. Have not figured out how to do this while reading manual.
> >  I'm using 6.8.5 version of Condor.
>
> AFAIK all VMs, or nodes, on a particular machine have to share the same
> base execute directory. You could, as part of your job, look at which VM
> you're job is being run under and change to another directory of your
> choice before doing any processing.
>
> On our bigger SMP machines I've often wished I could easily split the
> VMs execute directories to separate locations so as to put the disk load
> from each job on a separate physical drive. The above sol'n is all I've
> got for answer to that problem right now.

Just a reminder, they're Slots now, not VMs. A 4-core machine has 4 Slots.

As of 6.9.4:
http://www.cs.wisc.edu/condor/manual/v6.9.5/3_3Configuration.html#param:SlotXExecute

-Erik