I have such a set up. I have a fedora 8 server with Vmware 1.0.5, and Kubuntu 8.04 with ltsp running in a VM. It has been working fairly well. It is just about impossible to keep the time synchronized between the main server and the VM. But otherwise, it works well.
Up time is pretty good. I have gone for up to a month between rebooting the server, which I only do when fedora pushes out another kernel. I found that you need to allocate at least 1 gig of virtual memory for the virtual machine, so make sure you have enough RAM. This is not any kind of production machine, I did it because I have been using fedora for a while, but I wanted to play with Ubuntu, so I set up a VM. It proved easier to get ltsp running on Ubuntu than Fedora, so I set it up in the vm. I have a few old motherboards that I have set up as clients. I have one set up as a print and scanner server, and a couple of others set up as terminals. This should work for a live set up if you have enough RAM, and can find a way to keep time synchronized between the server and the VM Derek Tattersall Al Hutt wrote: > Cindy, > > I'd say it's worth a try. > > We run an Xen hosted-on-CentOS 5.1 LTSP 4.1 server for me user to do > app development. This allows me to use a different ISP or gateway or > other network configuration than the rest of our 40 users , who we serve > from 2 physical (workstation class) LTSP servers. (One would do, but we > want hardware redundancy). > > The comments about server load being greatest only at boot time are > correct. Since our home dir and all applications are NFS mounted from > another server performance is really more a function of the specs of > the other server, than of the LTSP server. All of our LTSP servers, > virtual and physical are just that and nothing more. They all mount home > dirs and load applications from a SCSI raided server with lots of ram > and a GB network card. This allows the all LTSP servers to be relatively > lightweight and specialized at their sole purpose: LTSP! > > I have no doubt the concept will work fine serving many users. It is > fast and reliable. > > Good Luck! > Al Hutt > > > > Cindy Murdock wrote: > >> Nevermind, in re-reading your message I see you had 5. I have about 30. >> >> 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
