On Sat, Jan 17, 2009 at 3:06 AM, Stephen Zvolner <[email protected]> wrote: > I would like to run an LTSP server over the Amazon compute cloud. I am > fairly new to > this technology, but what I was wondering is how I would configure the thin > client > machines to boot directly from the Internet, where the LTSP server would > reside. I would have an IP address of > the LTSP server. However, I'm not sure how I would configure the client > machines to connect to the > LTSP server running over the Internet, and not over a local area network. > Normally, the client obtains an IP address > from a DHCP server (standalone or the one bundled with LTSP). As I > understand, this is accomplished > by configuring the BIOS of the client machine to boot from the local area > network. In my case, however, > the thin client must actually go out over the Internet to establish a > connection and begin downloading the client > software. If anyone can give me any guidance or suggestions as to how this > might be accomplished or if this is even feasible. > Thanks you your help. >
For LTSP network you would need the server locally available in your LAN, there is no way of getting around that. You can however bootup image that support Amazon EC2 to connect all the clients to the cloud. openSUSE KIWI imaging system supports building of EC2 images, check out the following links for information on building KIWI images that support Amazon EC2: https://lists.berlios.de/pipermail/kiwi-devel/2008-July/000561.html Some discussion here: http://developer.amazonwebservices.com/connect/thread.jspa?threadID=25056&tstart=0&messageID=112534 We can probably adapt KIWI-LTSP (http://en.opensuse.org/LTSP ) image to support EC2 so all clients can act as nodes. Cheers -J ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net email is sponsored by: SourcForge Community SourceForge wants to tell your story. http://p.sf.net/sfu/sf-spreadtheword _____________________________________________________________________ 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
