On Friday 11 Jun 2010, Brian Milliron wrote: > I was recommended to ltsp by a user on one of the linux help forums. My > situation is that I need a remote desktop protocol to communicate with a > VM on my CentOS box. The default VNC protocol doesn't support sound and > there are some weird driver issues with Red Hat Spice on Debian flavored > distros (using Ubuntu as the VM). So I'm looking for something else, > and this was recommended. Only I'm not at all sure that a protocol > intended for thin clients to communicate with a server is going to work > in this situation where there is no thin client and no server. > > I've looked over the docs and it looks like ltsp is expecting a PXE boot > process which is not going to be the case in my situation. It also > seems there could be an issue with loading appropriate drivers on the VM > OS. So before I get too much deeper into this I wanted to ask if I am > wasting my time even trying this?
If all you're trying to do have remote desktop access to a VM, then you want NX not LTSP. I use FreeNX on the server and NoMachine.com's client. NoMachine have their own closed source NX server (free up to 5 users I think), and I believe Google now have an NX server as well. -- Chris Roberts +------------------+--------------------------+ | Distribution | Debian Lenny | | LTSP Version | 5.1.90-1 | | LDM Version | 2.0.48-1 | | Windows Manager | KDE 3.5.10 | | Kernel | 2.6.26-bpo.1-686 | +------------------+--------------------------+ | Distribution | Debian Lenny | | LTSP Version | 5.1.85-1 | | LDM Version | 2.0.45-1 | | Windows Manager | KDE 3.5.10 | | Kernel | 2.6.26-2-686 | +------------------+--------------------------+ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ThinkGeek and WIRED's GeekDad team up for the Ultimate GeekDad Father's Day Giveaway. ONE MASSIVE PRIZE to the lucky parental unit. See the prize list and enter to win: http://p.sf.net/sfu/thinkgeek-promo _____________________________________________________________________ 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
