[K12OSN] ltsp client for vmware

[Les Mikesell]

On Sun, 2005-10-30 at 22:29, Michael C Wescott wrote:
> On Sun, 2005-10-30 at 01:14 -0500, Les Mikesell wrote:
> > Has anyone tried setting up a VMware virtual machine that does a PXE
> > or etherboot to come up as a thin client?  It might be fun to try
> > that under the free vmware player for demos or situations where you
> > want access to both windows and client functions.
> 
> Did that once for a presentation on LTSP to a local Linux Users Group. I
> had a preinstalled K12LTSP server running and PXE-booted a Vmware
> virtual machine on my laptop while using it to present the slides.
> Unfortunately the "magic" of Vmware overshadowed the rest of it a bit.

Now that the player is free this might be a platform of choice
for machines that run windows.  You get the effect of dual-booting
without having to reboot. I'm not sure how performance compares
to running X on windows, but there would be some other side
effects like working with TeacherTool.  To make it work the
way you'd want I suppose you have to find a way to run
vmware tools in the session, though.

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  Les Mikesell
    les at futuresource.com