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Do you have the mac version of the 10.10 64-bit CD-ROM? The regular release doesn't work, so you need the mac specific one. You have to navigate around cdimage.ubuntu.com to find it.

UEC is really for dedicated machines, that is, you setup some machines to be a general compute resource, and essentially, every core in that machine can then be available for processing. You could...

You could also try ssh tunneling

ssh -X -C

Though X Windows tunneled through the cloud is slow.

You need the "port" version of the CD. The EFI loader on the 64-bit version doesn't work on the mac and they found it late. Its mentioned in the release notes, but its obscure.
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If condor is what I think it is, the advantage of using UEC is that UEC would enhance condor.

http://www.cs.wisc.edu/condor/

It's sort of a pain to get everything configured with a whole bunch...

No, it never gets to the key negotiation at all, it fails early. So there are no ssh keys period.

While I can start instances in my UEC install, I can't do anything with them.

After some poking around and with the help of ssh -v, I've figured out that the problem is that the ssh-keys aren't...

Actually, I'm installing on a second internal drive because its a MacPro so those aren't quite right.

I found these directions:
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Drives are much cheaper than my time.

So I want to just install Ubuntu on a second drive. Unfortunately, most of the docs seems focused on installing Ubuntu on a partition of the main drive, or...

So how come everyone uses VNC?

I know the answer of course, because doing

ssh -X blah@blah
gnome-session

is really slow!

But that seems silly to me to be constantly shipping pixels...

I found this too. I also found this is a confirmed bug, it got found late in the cycle and it only affects the 64-bit versions, because its something to do with EFI.

You have to download the...