Re: [Condor-users] I have to use VM Player in VM Universe; how?

[Todd Tannenbaum <tannenba@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Rob wrote:
> Hi,
>
>  I read that Condor works fine with VM Server.

Correct.

> However, I have to run Condor on Windows/XP pool-Pcs that
> have VM Player installed.
>
> Would that work out-of-the-box, or does it need extra tweaks?

Out of the box, the VM Universe in Condor does not support VMWare 
Player.  There are several reasons why we opted to only worry about the 
Server product for now, such as  VMWare Player only allows one VM to run 
per host (a real bummer on today's multi-core CPUs), and at least as of 
a year ago, Player did not have rich enough API interfaces to allow 
Condor to control/manage the vm programatically.

VMWare Server does not suffer from these limitations, and is also 
available at zero cost btw.

regards,
Todd