It actually sounds like what you're after here isn't VDI, but just a VirtualBox VM of Windows XP. You would still rather RDP to that though; VDI/VirtualBox and RDP are not mutually exclusive. Since you only need one user accessing it simultaneously, this would work perfectly even without the aforementioned modifications to allow multiple concurrent RDP connections to one XP box.
Best option for you may be to put everyone on Linux/Solaris, then put a launcher icon on their desktops or have some command they can run that just launches the RDP connection to the accounting host. William From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Kaya Saman Sent: Monday, February 01, 2010 5:21 PM To: SunRay-Users mailing list Subject: Re: [SunRay-Users] EXTERNAL: Working with MS Windows??? Thanks William for the input!! :-) On second thoughts since the company I am looking into this for as a demo; only one of their machines runs the accounting software of which only takes up 10GB of HD on the current limited machine that they have running it. Perhaps 1 VDI image of Win XP is necessary so no messing around with licensing issues as I know for a fact that this company won't pay since no one in the whole country I reckon pays for licenses apart from the computer companies they get to maintain their systems. For browsing, office etc, I'm sure I can convert them over to Linux so that might be the best resolution?? Regards, Kaya On 02/02/10 00:09, William Yang wrote: There's basically two options: 1) multiple direct RDP sessions to Windows Server 2) VDI with Windows XP (each user gets a VM) 1) is more resource-economical, but as mentioned below, you need TS CALs and some apps may not run properly. If your app doesn't run properly under TS, you may be better off going with 2). For 2), instead of TS CALs, I think you need a volume XP license. If you already have that, it may be easier to go with 2) from a licensing perspective. Otherwise 1) is also a little simpler since you don't need the Sun VDI layer in the middle, and at least in my limited experience with it, Sun VDI can be a little finicky sometimes. William
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