Terry, That's an awful lot of data to be reading via NFS.
My gut tells me that it would be horribly slow. But, it would be interesting to prove that right or wrong. Jim McQuillan [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Sat, 15 Feb 2003, Terrence Oblak wrote: > Here is my situation. I work in the development department of a software > company that creates Windows software. Everyone in the development > department will be getting new workstations in the next two months. We > currently have 12 workstations, AMD 1.0 Ghz with 512 Megs of RAM, and > these are going to be turned into a lab to test our code against. > > Originally we were planning on loading Redhat onto each of the machines, > then installing VMWare and setting up the workstations to run two VMs > each. Each VM would be running VNC to allow us to connect to the machines > over the LAN. > > I'm running a LTSP setup at home and I have suggested that we try the same > thing at work. > > I suggested that we take one of the old workstations and max out the RAM > and use it as the Application Server. We then use the remaining 11 > workstations as thin clients, however, each workstation would be running > its own copy of VMWare locally. > > So does anybody know if what I have suggested is possible? > > Our company is a Microsoft shop and I would really like to get Linux into > the building. > > Thanks, > > Terry > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek > Welcome to geek heaven. > http://thinkgeek.com/sf > _____________________________________________________________________ > Ltsp-discuss mailing list. To un-subscribe, or change prefs, goto: > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ltsp-discuss > For additional LTSP help, try #ltsp channel on irc.freenode.net > -- ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf _____________________________________________________________________ Ltsp-discuss mailing list. To un-subscribe, or change prefs, goto: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ltsp-discuss For additional LTSP help, try #ltsp channel on irc.freenode.net
