Krishna Murphy wrote: > Devraj, Ken, et. al.- > > I have the same challenge, but I'm utterly confident that QuickBooks will > NOT run under Wine - or any other such program. So I'm preparing to > install Windows Server 2003 as a virtual machine, then QB on it. My plan > is to allow LTSP users, and perhaps other LAN clients, to use a remote > desktop connection to the VM, as this box is a dual-processor, dual-core > 2 GHz/4 G-RAM heavy lifter with the SMP-enabled 2.6 kernel. I doubt they > will even notice any difference in terminal operations when the Winders > section is busy, as the TC/QB connections will be sharing a Gbit line out > of the enterprise switch, which could be split (if need be) into one each > for TCs and QB/local if need be. > > > VMware gives you the ability to run multiple OS from the same server at the same time. Since hardware is relatively cheap, I would suggest using two separate servers one for LTSP and one for Windows. Then just use rdesktop to point to the Windows server.
If you are only trying to run one application natively (i.e., Quickbooks), then look at win4lin.com. It creates a VM for Windows that runs on Linux. You can run Windows 2000 and XP applications with win4lin. Plus if you only need one or two users to access the Windows system, you can get two win4lin licenses (cheaper than Windows 2003 license). Ken Cobler ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _____________________________________________________________________ Ltsp-discuss mailing list. To un-subscribe, or change prefs, goto: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ltsp-discuss For additional LTSP help, try #ltsp channel on irc.freenode.net
