Hi,

I'm wondering if it's possible to launch remote solaris clones without using HQueue? We currently used deadline for our render management and I've never used HQueue, but wanted to test the remote clone workflow. Just for a quick test I wanted to try and avoid working out how to setup HQueue correctly.

Is there any kind of service I can run on a remote machine, that I can leave running and manually target?

Thanks,
David.

You can write a clone launcher plugin by implementing a few python functions. The main thing you need to do is tell Houdini how to launch the "clone" process on your farm. See $HFS/houdini/python3.11libs/clonelauncher.py, and $HFS/houdini/cloneplugins/launchers/clone_hqueue.py for the base class of the clone launcher plugin system, and the specific implementation of the hqueue clone launcher as a starting point.