[K12OSN] ltsp client for vmware

[Michael C Wescott]

On Sun, 2005-10-30 at 23:01 -0600, Les Mikesell wrote:
> 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.

An Xserver on windows would certainly be faster. Only where you want to
run a Linux app locally would there be some utility. Is that the reason
for the comment about teachertool? But if you're going that far, why not
come up with a Vmware virtual machine that acts as a client?

And a Virtual machine that's a server might be good for demo purposes as
well.