Re: Thin client with VCL

2012-04-10 Thread Henry Schaffer
Michael's point about testing is excellent! :-) Other considerations include comparing prices - the price of desktop computer has decreased greatly in the past few years, narrowing the price difference from thin clients. Also consider how you might want to use the desktop/local machines. The VCL

Re: Thin client with VCL

2012-04-10 Thread Michael Jinks
Several years ago, we put thin clients (Sun Ray) in all our public computing spaces and computer-equipped classrooms. They work great for most things, and they do indeed save lots of expense and hassle. We're now in the process of going back to PC's, though. There are several reasons, but the on

Re: VIM_SSH failed to login error

2012-04-10 Thread Andy Kurth
Hello, Welcome! You do not need the vSphere SDK and you don't need to configure the username/password in the profile. All that is required is that the management node is able to SSH without a password to both the VM host and VM. It looks like this is working. I don't think the problem has to do

Re: Thin client with VCL

2012-04-10 Thread jjzamani
Yes I use chippc thin clents, also you can use an IPAD with cloud share a (RDP app) but in this case you have to write the ip address, user and pwd Juan José Zamanillo -Original Message- From: Dmitri Chebotarov Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2012 09:41:11 To: Reply-To: vcl-user@incubator.apache.o

Thin client with VCL

2012-04-10 Thread Dmitri Chebotarov
Hi All, Is anyone here is using a thin client with VCL? I.e. Dell FX100 or similar? (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thin_client). This could work well with VCL, since most of thin boxes support RDP. Interesting to see how a thin client compares to a regular PC in classroom environment. Seems li