[K12OSN] M$ access from K12LTSP

norbert bear2bar at netscape.net
Tue Mar 16 14:21:20 UTC 2004


Hi Les,

When I tried to run VMWare workstation I could only launch 2 sessions 
(instances) of another OS from the clients. Have you been able to have 
multiple sessions on different clients ?  HOW ?

norbert

les at futuresource.com wrote:

>On Tue, 2004-03-16 at 07:37, norbert wrote:
>  
>
>>3) VMWare GSX server running on the LTSP, or some other appp server.
>>Provided that this can be made to work with thin-clients. My attempts
>>with this have not been successful.
>>
>>Bottom line if anyone has experience with any of the above or has been
>>able to get VMWare GSX server working with multiple clients I'd really
>>appreciated the input and feedback.
>>
>>    
>>
>
>I don't think GSX is intended to provide multiple users
>with their own console.  However you should be able to
>use it's client console for administration and configure
>one or more virtual win2k servers running terminal services
>that clients would access with rdesktop just as they would
>with a physical server.  If you can afford it, VMWare would
>make the administration of the windows side much easier
>because you could pretend you had a whole assortment of
>special-purpose servers. I've had the demo version running
>but can't remember now whether it was on a Mandrake or
>k12ltsp server.  By the way, for anyone else who hasn't
>tried VMWare, even the workstation version is sufficient
>to create virtual machines where you can install and test
>new versions of Linux or windows without touching your
>existing setup. 
>
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>  Les Mikesell
>   les at futuresource.com
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