Prerequisites

Each section here represents prerequisites for each portion of the install. This might be useful if trying out a portion of the technology, or skipping optional parts of the build.

Prerequisites to "Build and test a Windows VM"

The following prerequisites in "Build and test a Windows VM" relate to the initial portion of the installation process. This section does not include integration with Slurm, Samba, Open OnDemand, orthe optional spank_oodproxy or the security of a network namespace.

On a workstation somewhere

• A Windows 11 install CD
• virt-manager

On cluster node(s)

• Virtualization must be enabled
• qemu-kvm
• container support (apptainer or similar)
• node.js

On OnDemand server(s)

• Reverse proxy enabled to test if VM is running (if connecting through noVNC)
• Reverse proxy enabled to test connections to guacamole server running on cluster node

Additional prerequisistes for "Get Windows jobs running in Open OnDemand"

• Open OnDemand. Tested with both versions 3.x and 4.x
• Slurm scheduler
• Ability to install Slurm spank plugins
• socat >= 1.8.0

Windows Customizations

spank_oodproxy (optional)

WIP