(In the following comments, I use the term thin client in lose terms, it can either be a true thin client or a pc that boots from the network, PXE, TFTP and all that stuff).
I'm a little confused by this virtualized desktop thread. To me, it sounds like LTSP or the pregen'd system K12LTSP. I've worked more with the K12LTSP flavor, because it's pregen'd, quick and easy and I wanted to see what thin client was all about. (I did this about 4 years ago). IIRC, the thin client, with regards to the mouse, could be run one of two ways, either 1) the mouse traffic goes across the network, which does generate a lot of traffic. I watched my network switch while moving the mouse. The port light/led really did a lot of blinking when I moved the mouse or 2) the kernel and a few other pieces of software get down loaded to the thin client, thus avoiding all of the mouse network traffic. Yeah, downloading the kernel, etc, takes a few extra seconds, but no mouse network traffic. The other thing that comes to mind with K12LTSP is that you can keep some files on the server, swap space for example and maybe /tmp. Swap space could be almost as bad as the mouse if a lot of swapping is going on. I've always wanted to try LTSP on zLinux, just never had the time. It would seem to me that downloading the kernel, et al, would be the thing to do. Or am I missing the mark (not Post <g>) here about the topic/thread? Steve -----Original Message----- From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu] On Behalf Of Ward, Mike S Sent: Thursday, May 14, 2009 1:44 PM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Re: Virtualized Desktop Are you saying that you can't use a mouse on linux under VM? Or you can but the performance is bad?
