Proxmox SPICE VDI Solution

[Raymond Burns]

I need some help. Is there any workflow that can be used to boot a client PC (without OS) directly into a SPICE VM?
I want to offload my complete Computer Lab and Staff PC's to my Proxmox Cluster.

I've seen OSDVT and Cantivo, but those seem to be all in one solutions. I just need the client side of the software, as Proxmox already provides the server VM and SPICE connection.

 

[mir]

pxe boot is the way to go. All you need is to assemble a load and runtime environment suitable for boot and run through pxe.
A mature project: http://www.ltsp.org/
A new project which fits your needs: http://www.ucs.br/projetos/osdvt/index.php/Main_Page (the client part)

 

[Milkwyrm]

I dont think PVE is the soluton you want (until at least they have a user portal and or API support). It's a perfect backend server environment. it's just not designed around the concepts needed for true VDI. I'd suggest you look at the others as proposed by Mir and add http://www.foss-cloud.org to the mix.
It is a little over board on it's need for vlans for the single server build and the documentation is lacking in the LDAP/Active Directory area, but it does work very well, being designed from the ground up as a VDI infrastructure.