On 09/25/2015 04:12 PM, Nicholas Lee wrote:
On 26 September 2015 at 07:04, Nahum Shalman <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:On 09/24/2015 09:13 PM, Will Beazley wrote:Related question: since the thread has been scheduled (abuse of concept, yet not quite a pun): SmartOS as a VDI server (KVM, LX, native)? I am not looking to undertake this, it is more an ask as a 'Point of Information'.I have ~50 users using at least 3 VMs each (more than 180 VMs in total) spread across 10 hypervisors all on SmartOS. We're using Linux as the Spice client, but if you don't need USB passthrough Windows can work as a client too. We run both Linux and Windows guest VMs.How do you find windows a VDI guest on Smartos? Which version of Windows are you running? How many can you run at one time?
We're running Windows 7. If I remember the history of it correctly, when the Spice protocol was first developed the first guest that they worked on was Windows. As such, Windows is a very good VDI guest in this setup (arguably better than Linux for various reasons). As for how many can we run, with the SmartOS design of locking down memory for KVM guests, memory sizing has generally been the limiting factor. Take system RAM, subtract some of it for overhead and ARC, then divide by the amount you want to give the guests.
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