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Re: [Condor-users] elf on windows



POVB - Pools Of Virtual Boxes* works very well in creating a Linux
environment under Windows.
And, as you preinstall it, there is no copying around of large VMs.
-Ian
* just Google for it








On 31/05/2011 15:33, "Ian Chesal" <ichesal@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

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>            On Tuesday, May 31, 2011 at 9:43 AM, alaxa@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
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>                    sorry for the silly questions but I was wondering
>if/how condor is able to
>distribute code written from linux to windows machines in the pool. I am
>trying 
>but I get the Shadow Exception so I suspect It cannot run any elf code,
>am I 
>right?
>
>
>
>
>You are correct. You cannot run this binaries on non-Linux systems.
>
>Then, I see that there are project about running the condor-pool inside a
>cluster of virtualmachine. I was wondering how this is efficient and
>performant.
>
>
>
>
>Modern virtual machine technology is impressive. The performance is
>somewhat VM-technology and application specific, but it's rarely an awful
>way to run computations these days. The biggest hit you'll take with this
>approach is the movement of the VM -- these VM files can get big if
>you're not careful with how you architect your job and your VMs.
>
>- Ian 
>
>-- 
>Ian Chesal
>ichesal@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx://www.cyclecomputing.com/
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