[ale] Mass Machine Virtualization w/ Remote GUI Access

[Jeb Barger]

Another solution is VMWares free server:
http://www.vmware.com/products/server/


Just install it on a server box and clients can control/use/create vm
using the server from the client pc

Steven A. DuChene wrote:
> Yes, but Jeff specifically said one of his problems is that the local desktops
> are in many cases not heavy enough to run vmware or MSVPC sessions.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Christopher Fowler <cfowler at outpostsentinel.com>
>> Sent: Feb 21, 2006 2:13 PM
>> To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts <ale at ale.org>
>> Subject: Re: [ale] Mass Machine Virtualization w/ Remote GUI Access
>>
>> On Tue, 2006-02-21 at 14:03 -0500, Jeff Hubbs wrote:
>>> I've got a situation where a number of users on a development shop LAN 
>>> are in a bad way because they're trying to run a number of different 
>>> Win2K3 Server virtual machines - done up in Microsoft Virtual PC - on 
>>> their desktops.  This has come to result in people trying to pull and 
>>> push around 4-6GB of MSVPC files on the LAN, and, of course, anyone who 
>>> wants to actually run an instance on MSVPC has to have scads of RAM and 
>>> this is often incompatible with various people's desktops and laptops 
>>> who may be running "only" 512MB, tops. 
>> vmplayer rocks!
>>
>>> My way of addressing this would be to use VMware instead of MSVPC, 
>>> running it on an "uberserver" capable of  holding and running numerous 
>>> virtual machines at once, such that various people can connect to the 
>>> virtual machines at the display level from their own WinXP desktops and 
>>> laptops. 
>> ESX or GSX?  
>>
>>> It's that last part that I have a question about.  Given that it would 
>>> be nice if more than one person could actually connect remotely to any 
>>> one of these virtual machines (i.e., fighting over mouse/keyboard if so 
>>> inclined), how to best cover the remote access?
>>>
>> Terminal Services
>>
>>> Ways I'm aware of include Xorg+Cygwin, a commercial X Server for 
>>> Windows, VNC, or MS Terminal Services. [NOTE:  I assume that all but the 
>>> last would take place over OpenSSH].
>>>
>> Terminal Services
>>
>>> What do you think?
>>>
>> I would use vmware to create a standard machine.  Maybe with a 10G disk
>> image.  I would then zip it up and copy to share.  Do not install
>> anything on it.
>>
>> You can then have them copy off share to desktop and use vmplayer and
>> install anything they want in that image.  
>>
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