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"J. Roeleveld" <joost@××××××××.org> writes: |
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> On 17 January 2016 18:35:20 CET, Mick <michaelkintzios@×××××.com> wrote: |
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>>I use the icaclient provided by Citrix to access my virtual desktop at |
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>>work, |
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>>but have never tried to set up something similar at home. What |
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>>opensource |
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>>software would I need for this? Is there a wiki somewhere to follow? |
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> I'd love to do this myself as well. |
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> Citrix sells the full package as 'XenDesktop'. To do it yourself you need a VMserver (Xen or similar) and a remote desktop tool that hooks into the VM display. (Spice or VNC) |
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> Then you need some way of authenticating users and providing access to the client software. |
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You would have a full VM for each user? That would be a huge waste of |
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resources, plus having to take care of a lot of VMs, plus having to buy |
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a lot of Windoze licenses and taking about a week to install the updates |
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after installing a VM. Add to that that the xen host goes down at |
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random time intervals (because the sending queue of the network card |
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times out for reasons that cannot be determined) which can be as long as |
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a day, a week or even up to three weeks, and you are likely to become a |
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rather unhappy administrator. Try kvm instead, and you'll find that |
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it's impossible to migrate the VMs from xen to to kvm when you want to |
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use virtio drivers because you can't install them on an existing Windoze |
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VM. |
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Then there's the question how well vnc or spice connections work over a |
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VPN that goes over the internet. It's not like the employees could get |
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reliable internet connections with sufficient bandwidth, not to mention |
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that the company would have to get one in the first place, which isn't |
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much easier to get, if any. |
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It might work in theory. How would it be feasible in practise? |