On Tue, Aug 24, 2021 at 11:03 PM Ciro Iriarte <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hello!, > > Well, with VNC I was planning to use a 1:1 mapping between users and VMs > (around 20), but with XRDP it seems I can reduce the VM count and have 4 > machines with 5 users. That would reduce the OS maintenance overhead like > patching, or Firefox bookmarks maintenance (Puppet in the ToDo list, but > won't be ready soon). > > Yep, this is one of the advantages of using xrdp over VNC, at least in my use-cases. There may be situations where it's actually better to do a 1-to-1 mapping, but for many cases having multiple users per system is fine, and xrdp definitely enables this in a way that's a bit easier from a session management perspective. > I disabled the default entries which include VNC, and just kept the xorg > one. No audio out of the box. > Hmmm....I'll have to play around with it and see if I can get audio working. Never really tried this - not been on my use-case list. > > Regarding performance, native RDP had nice upgrades in the latest versions > like UDP support and some kind of out of the box acceleration. I don't > expect multimedia to be center of the usecase, but a quick YouTube test > makes it clear XRDP is not there yet (very choppy experience). > > Yeah, this isn't terribly surprising. Again, not how I've used xrdp, so I'm not sure I can offer a lot of help. Maybe the xrdp mailing list or issue tracker would have some help on this front. -NIck >
