Thin Clients
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Hi, I've worked with SunRay sometime ago,
Sunray is more less virtual technology agnostic (it has vdi like software, but its almost a joke). You only need the sun ray connector for windows, which is a simple rdp client for Unix, and you'll can connect to any windows machine, physical or virtual. You'll need a net connection between windows and sun ray server, of course.
Other world is a non-windows machine. In that case you'll need exec some type of remote desktop client like NX (previously installed in guest), for example, but Solaris's NX client binary its only available for sparc (you can compile it, i think).
For pure Proxmox console (vnc), you only need to launch a Solaris vnc client to pve vnc server (all about im talking is in SunRay Kiosk mode) and code some simple script in proxmox inetd, for example, in order to open vm's vnc server by demand. Both (SunRay Server and Proxmox Server) need some extra scripting work. Sadly vnc is far away to be a good choice for desktop environment.
For now there isnt a perfect method, but i think (and hope) Spice protocol from KVM is the future, so Proxmox is on the track. And Spice will work in SunRay, no doubt.
PD: There is a RHEL/Centos SSRR package, but i havent tried it yet.
Regars,
Jesús Feliz.
Sunray is more less virtual technology agnostic (it has vdi like software, but its almost a joke). You only need the sun ray connector for windows, which is a simple rdp client for Unix, and you'll can connect to any windows machine, physical or virtual. You'll need a net connection between windows and sun ray server, of course.
Other world is a non-windows machine. In that case you'll need exec some type of remote desktop client like NX (previously installed in guest), for example, but Solaris's NX client binary its only available for sparc (you can compile it, i think).
For pure Proxmox console (vnc), you only need to launch a Solaris vnc client to pve vnc server (all about im talking is in SunRay Kiosk mode) and code some simple script in proxmox inetd, for example, in order to open vm's vnc server by demand. Both (SunRay Server and Proxmox Server) need some extra scripting work. Sadly vnc is far away to be a good choice for desktop environment.
For now there isnt a perfect method, but i think (and hope) Spice protocol from KVM is the future, so Proxmox is on the track. And Spice will work in SunRay, no doubt.
PD: There is a RHEL/Centos SSRR package, but i havent tried it yet.
Regars,
Jesús Feliz.
Here's a cool project that I tested out awhile back with amazing results.
http://openthinclient.org/home
Allows you to boot thinclients over the network
let me know if you have questions as I have done numerous deploys
Another Option is to checkout the SPICE:
http://spice-space.org/home.html
http://openthinclient.org/home
Allows you to boot thinclients over the network
let me know if you have questions as I have done numerous deploys
Another Option is to checkout the SPICE:
http://spice-space.org/home.html
Does that system allow a thinclient machine to boot directly into a windows session? Also can usb devices be passed through to the VM? Finally, does the VM pass audio though to the thinclient?
Hi,
As far as I understand, the thin client is just a minimal system allowing you to launch a client for the desired remote desktop protocol. The session is always hosted on the remote/central host, be it hard or virtual. So if by "boot directly into a windows session" you mean whether user can directly get to windows login screen using a TC, answer is yes (at least in tests I've once done with www.thinstation.org and www.xpunlimited.com using RDP).
Hope it helps a little
Bests
As far as I understand, the thin client is just a minimal system allowing you to launch a client for the desired remote desktop protocol. The session is always hosted on the remote/central host, be it hard or virtual. So if by "boot directly into a windows session" you mean whether user can directly get to windows login screen using a TC, answer is yes (at least in tests I've once done with www.thinstation.org and www.xpunlimited.com using RDP).
Hope it helps a little
Bests
I've been testing some ubuntu LTS ltsp thin clients in our warehouse running from old eeeboxes. I can't see any reason why it wouldn't be possible to use proxmox and a KVM machine to serve out thin client images. I suggest KVM just to keep things as easy as possible, as if you use openvz there's a bit more fiddling about to get X working, but its possible as the ltsp cluster project can use openvz https://www.ltsp-cluster.org/documentation/howto/openvz-setup