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I have one site, a small office, running K12LTSP-EL5, where they have one
Windows app they can't live without. I installed VMWare Server and an XP Pro VM
and then installed the app in that. The users then run the VMWare console to
get to the app. I had tried, briefly, installing the app under Wine, but
something, I can't recall what, didn't work quite right; I didn't spend too much
time on tying to make it work. Under VMWare, it's been fine, although I don't
think they ever have more than one person at a time accessing the app. But it
does work just fine via thin client. I'm not wild about VMWare not being in the
'free as in speech' category; but at the time, Virtual Box's networking was too
much of a pain to deal with; and I just didn't even think about Qemu at the time
(this was a while back). If I were to do it today, I think I might try the qemu
route just because it seems less complex (but that's just speculation).
Peter
Nils Breunese wrote:
Hello all,
I have a pretty beefy K12LTSP 5EL 64-bit server setup with about 10 thin
clients attached. This is working fine, but there is one legacy Windows
application my users need. I kept a couple of Windows XP installations
around which they can use for this application, but I'd like to get rid
of those machines. There have been some attempts at getting the
application to work under Wine, but no luck so far.
I'm thinking of setting up a virtual Windows XP machine on the K12LTSP
server. The server is a Dell PowerEdge 2900 with a quad-core Intel Xeon
E5320 1.86 GHz (which supports Intel's VT virtualization extension) and
4 GB RAM. What virtualization method would people recommend for doing
this? KVM, QEMU (+kqemu/qvm86), VirtualBox, VMware Server, Xen? I think
Xen is the only method that's available from the K12LTSP/CentOS
repositories, right? Plus it's open source. I have used VMware Server on
a desktop machine in the past for testing.
Is anybody else running a virtual Windows installation on K12LTSP? How
did you go about this?
Thanks,
Nils Breunese.
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