Re: [Ltsp-discuss] winxp in virtual vdi inside Ubuntu ltsp server

2015-06-03 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
On 03/06/2015 09:57 πμ, Funke, Martin wrote: Hello, this sounds like a very interesting project but I don’t understand how you do it. You can expose the .vdi file using nbd. The client image just needs to have vbox installed, it doesn't need to contain the .vdi image.

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] winxp in virtual vdi inside Ubuntu ltsp server

2015-06-03 Thread Funke, Martin
Hello, this sounds like a very interesting project but I don’t understand how you do it. Just as an info im using xubuntu 14.04 and ltsp 5.5.1 Do you install vbox and the vm and do a new image with ltsp-update-image -c /? Then every client should have vbox and the vm to work with. Or do you

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] winxp in virtual vdi inside Ubuntu ltsp server

2015-06-02 Thread richard kweskin
On 2015-06-01 14:53, Michael Pope wrote: Hello Richard, I used to do this at work but have now moved over to using KVM for the Win XP images instead as it's easier to manage from a server point of view. It depends on what you're doing though as KVM doesn't handle 3d graphics so Virtualbox

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] winxp in virtual vdi inside Ubuntu ltsp server

2015-06-02 Thread richard kweskin
On 2015-06-01 16:18, rol...@giesler.za.net wrote: Forget running XP in a VM on 1GB RAM. Use libvirt and run it on the server and you should be fine. Sent from my BlackBerry® Thank you, Roland, for your input. As I have said to the others responding I have no prior experience of any virtual

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] winxp in virtual vdi inside Ubuntu ltsp server

2015-06-02 Thread Άλκης Γεωργόπουλος
Hi Richard, KVM is just a bit better than VBox when the CPU supports hardware acceleration (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X86_virtualization), but it's *extremely* slower when it doesn't, and since CPUs that don't support hardware acceleration are usually already a bit slower than the rest, it's

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] winxp in virtual vdi inside Ubuntu ltsp server

2015-06-01 Thread Michael Pope
On 01/06/15 19:53, richard kweskin wrote: I will be assisting in setting up ltsp using 32bit Ubuntu 12.04 in a school for kids aged 9 to 13 yrs old. The school has asked that windows be also available as they have win software they use. My thought was to include on the ltsp server a vdi

[Ltsp-discuss] winxp in virtual vdi inside Ubuntu ltsp server

2015-06-01 Thread richard kweskin
I will be assisting in setting up ltsp using 32bit Ubuntu 12.04 in a school for kids aged 9 to 13 yrs old. The school has asked that windows be also available as they have win software they use. My thought was to include on the ltsp server a vdi with windows xp using virtualbox. The 16 clients

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] winxp in virtual vdi inside Ubuntu ltsp server

2015-06-01 Thread roland
@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [Ltsp-discuss] winxp in virtual vdi inside Ubuntu ltsp server I will be assisting in setting up ltsp using 32bit Ubuntu 12.04 in a school for kids aged 9 to 13 yrs old. The school has asked that windows be also available as they have win software they use. My thought