Hello Cindy, Until a few weeks agoo I had a vmware based ltsp server in production( 5 clients). And it worked just fine.
The host was running ubuntu dapper + vmware server 1.05 The ltsp guest was gutsy. authenticating against a debian guest ldap/file server on the same physical machine. The only thing you really have to watch out for are the guest clocks. Make sure that you have disabled all the timesync mechanisms on the guests and have their clocks hooked up to the host clock using the vmware-tools timesync option. You can then synchronize the host clock another time-server. If you synchronize the guest clocks to a time server you run the risk that the clocks start freerunning if they accidently get ahead of host time (I know it from my own experience.. :( ) see also here: www.vmware.com/pdf/vmware_timekeeping.pdf for more information. cheers, Ate On Mo, 2008-05-19 at 14:17 -0400, Cindy Murdock wrote: > Hi list, > > A colleague and I were throwing about ideas, and the thought came up of > using a vmware image as an LTSP server, so I thought I'd ask the list to > see if anyone had done it. We're facing the prospect of upgrading > several servers from Ubuntu Edgy to Feisty to Gutsy to Hardy, or else > swapping out the servers for fresh ones, all in the midst of another > large and time-consuming project. The thought of simply deploying a new > virtual server at all our locations is rather tempting. > > Thanks! > Cindy > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _____________________________________________________________________ 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
