Edubuntu/ ltsp? [was Re: VMware ]

[Oliver Grawert]

hi,
On Do, 2007-02-22 at 01:45 -0500, Matthew Flaschen wrote:
> > In this case you are only running windows in *one* virtual machine,
> > ( one license?)
> 
> I don't think so.  Most of the Windows EULA's limit the number of
> clients that can connect to 5-10.
thats exactly the reason why we decided to never ship wine on the
edubuntu CD, you get in a horrible gray (or even dark black legal area
with ltsp and windows apps (usually the apps you purchase for windows
have very similar licenses to teh eula ... or even worse ones))

froa technical POV booting a windows image instead of a linux chroot
should be possible, i saw some proprieatry solutions doing it ... but
never played with it myself ...

partimage might be a good candidate to look at, with a little glue of a
PXE menu and dhcp integration it should be possible to boot windows
natively over the net from an image instead of having teh vmware
overhead on the server ;)

indeed i'll happily accept and review patches for additional options in
ltsp but wont provide anything in the default setup that gets users into
illegal activities ...  :)

ciao
	oli
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