Note: This version of the VDT (1.9.1) is no longer supported. Feel free to look through the documentation and install it, but we cannot guarantee support for it. The current stable release is 2.0.0.
Starting with VDT 1.8.1, we support a subset of client tools on Mac OS X 10.4 running on Apple Intel hardware. To date, we have performed light, manual testing of the following components against a VDT-installed gatekeeper.
Note: You can get all of these components at once by installing the VDT-Client package.
It is possible that some other components will install in Mac OS X, but we have not tested them and they are not supported. In particular, no services are supported and the vdt-control script is not expected to work. The list of supported components on the VDT contents page may be not be up-to-date — only the components listed above are supported.
We know of no particular system requirements beyond a stock Mac OS X install. Note, however, that all tests were performed on a machine with Mac OS X Server; we have not tested all components on a Mac OS X (Client) machine. If using a regular desktop machine, it is probably a good idea to install the Developer Tools first.
There are a couple steps that seem to be required before installing the VDT to get things to work properly.
If submitting to a grid resource, be sure that the Mac gets a proper hostname. By default, a Mac may have an invalid hostname. To check:
% hostname my-mac-machine.local
If the hostname ends in “.local” or is otherwise not a fully qualified hostname, please check with your system administrator to get a fully qualified hostname that is known to DNS and the grid resource(s) in question. Once this task is completed, hostname should return the fully qualified hostname:
% hostname my-mac-machine.cs.wisc.edu