Does Cruise support installing multiple agents in a box (registered with the same cruise server). We were trying this because running just one build on a multi processor machine seems wasteful. Is there any way to get around this other than virtualization ?

Hey Anuj

Right now Cruise only supports one agent per box. The way around that is, as you suggest, to use virtualization—that’s what we do. Our personal experience is that virtualisation is a better solution anyway because that way builds don’t tread on each others’ toes, and these days if you configure your virtual environment correctly there’s very little performance hit. We might add support for agents to run more than one build at the same time in the future, depending on how much of a problem it is for people.

Jez.