On Mon, Jan 18, 2016 at 1:44 AM, J. Roeleveld <jo...@antarean.org> wrote: > On Monday, January 18, 2016 02:02:27 AM lee wrote: >> >> You would have a full VM for each user? > > Yes > >> That would be a huge waste of resources, > > Diskspace and CPU can easily be overcommitted. >... > The biggest reason why I don't use KVM is the lack of full snapshot > functionality. Snapshotting disks is nice, but you end up with an unclean- > shutdown situation and anything that's not yet committed to disk is gone. >
Seems like on linux a straightforward design would be spinning up containers on demand, with snapshots underneath. Granted, somebody still needs to build it, but spinning up a container per user isn't much more resource-intensive than just running x2go with multiple users in a single namespace which is how it works today. It certainly would be less wasteful than a full VM. They also launch and shutdown super-fast. Of course, this is a linux-only solution (or BSD I believe). You're not going to be able to do this with OSX/Windows guests. -- Rich
