Edubuntu/ ltsp? [was Re: VMware ]

[Patton Echols]

On 02/21/2007 10:18 PM, Peter Garrett wrote:
> On Wed, 21 Feb 2007 22:13:02 -0600
> "Dave Grundgeiger" <dave.grundgeiger at codenouveau.com> wrote:
>
>   
>> There are two things that I would be concerned about. The first is 
>> performance--you do pay a price for the virtualization layer, and you say 
>> these are old boxes. Second is licensing--you'll still need a Windows 
>> license for each virtual machine.
>>     
>
> just an idea - what if the lab was set up with Edubuntu/ ltsp using all the
> boxes as thin clients, and running vmware only on the application server,
> which would be obviously a much more powerful machine ?
>
> In this case you are only running windows in *one* virtual machine,
> ( one license?) and assuming that the server has enough power to handle the
> thin clients all running from it, you also negate the performance hit from
> using old boxes.
>   
Interesting idea.  It's not that there is _no_ budget for hardware.  If 
the existing boxes could be preserved, the limited funding could be used 
for more of a server if that would really work.  I do wonder about the 
license issue.  I would think that to be legal you need a license for 
each concurrent instance, thin client or no.  The existing boxes are 
running Win2000.
> I have no idea if this would work - it just came to mind. 
>
> Oliver? Any other Edubuntu / ltsp gurus?
>
> Peter
>
> Peter
>
>