Re: [Condor-users] Condor on Windows 7

["Burnett, Ben" <ben.burnett@xxxxxxxx>]

Hi Robert:

I've been running Condor on Window 7 for a while without any ill effects.  If you are coming from Vista, then you shouldn't notice any changes; however, if you made the leap from XP, then you may run into a problem if have jobs that require access to the user's desktop (Excel jobs, et. al.).

For the gory details on Session 0 isolation, please refer to the following article:
http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/system/sysinternals/Session0Changes.mspx

If you need to run these types of applications, there is a work-around that allows you to use the the desktop allocated for services and drivers:

"You can work around this by enabling and starting the Interactive Services Detection Service. [I]f you want to enable it yourself simply type the following two command at a command prompt:

sc config UI0Detect start= auto
net start UI0Detect

[Note the space after "start=" is important.]

Now when you run interactive services, you will see the Interactive Services Detection dialog popup. If you click on "Show me the message" you will be switched onto Session 0. NOTE: Only GUI based applications will trigger the popup. Console based applications will not trigger the popup. The two screen shots below illustrate this. It is also a good idea to make your services depend on the UI0Detect service. This means the UI0Detect will be up and running before your service is started and will prompt you to switch to the Session 0 desktop immediately."
[from: http://www.firedaemon.com/manual/index.html?WindowsVista]

Regards,
-B

On 2010-06-04, at 3:26 AM, rb wrote:

> All,
> will condor run on windows 7 without specific settings? 
> I saw in the online manual, that windows7 is not listed in the supported platforms. 
> Does anyone have experience with condor on windows 7 and can give some basic advices?
> Thanks,
> Robert
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