On Tuesday 20 May 2008 03:05:32 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi list, > > A colleague and I were throwing about ideas, and the thought came up of > using a vmware image as an LTSP server, so I thought I'd ask the list to > see if anyone had done it. We're facing the prospect of upgrading > several servers from Ubuntu Edgy to Feisty to Gutsy to Hardy, or else > swapping out the servers for fresh ones, all in the midst of another > large and time-consuming project. The thought of simply deploying a new > virtual server at all our locations is rather tempting.
On my server I did *nothing* about ltsp. I upgraded to Hardy, as I recall I needed slight fiddle with dhcp or tftp, and continued using my old ltsp5 setup. (upgrade kept the old keys, so I did not even rebuild squash image. Seems to me that there is no reason to ever touch a working ltsp setup. For me, vmware won't keep time on AMD64. Without guest-tools it loses oooh um 10 min per hour, with, it gains. All the help/howtos not withstanding. VirtualBox keeps time, but keeps CPU load pegged high with tic-less kernels. So fiddling to rebuild a 100Hz kernel ... I find the network performance of vmware *keep getting the impression it's slower* without seeing anything specific. All the above not withstanding, the VMs are really very nice and useful. I would balk at using them in production. Any (other) feedback would be interesting. James ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _____________________________________________________________________ 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
