[K12OSN] VMWare and K12LTSP

[Les Mikesell]

Peter Scheie wrote:
> I've got a site where I installed VMWare and Win XP onto the K12LTSP-5EL 
> server.  One user had a few Windows apps they couldn't do without, and 
> it was cheaper than buying a separate Windows machine, etc.  While the 
> permissions are such that any of the users can use the XP VM, I think 
> only that one user so far is using it.  It works pretty well, but it's a 
> small installation and I don't know how well it would scale up to many 
> simultaneous users.

I don't think you'd want to run more than one or two VM's at once along 
with normal k12ltsp activity.  However, you might configure a windows 
server under vmware to provide terminal servers to several rdesktop 
clients.  One really nice thing about using virtual machines is that you 
can save an image in a working state (at the file level even without any 
of the internal snapshot tricks), do some experimental stuff, and if you 
don't like it you can always discard the new copy and go back to a state 
you liked.  They are great for testing things even if you end up needing 
another machine to handle your load.

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   Les Mikesell
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