Hi, Have you looked at Teradici PCoIP? They have a hardware solution based on a PCIe card in the host machine, and a PCoIP thin client. The performance is stunning. You don't even notice that you're connected to a thin client. I'm using this on a daily basis myself.
To get a broker you can use Leostream's Connection Broker which supports Teradici PCoIP both for Windows and Linux. You will be needing the thin client when connecting. I don't think you can use a software client to connect to the physical machines. You can ask Leostream about this. See the following youtube video for more info: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NWjhAHDQZ7E This solution is for physical machines, not virtual machines. Regards, Siggi On Thu, August 2, 2012 14:44, Randall Wood wrote: > Sorry for the delay in responding. > > > I have a set of users (about 50) who have Linux workstations at their > desks. These users have root access to these workstations, and these > workstations are frequently > host VMs or are used for hardware driver development and support. These users > have access to a > pool of managed Windows 7 VMs (for MS Office applications) in oVirt, so they > are > already using the oVirt user portal. I would like to give these users remote > access to their > workstations (from thin clients in conference rooms, from home, from > corporate laptops on the > road, etc) using the same User Portal that they already use for the Windows > VMs. > > VMware View and Citrix XenDesktop support providing users access to a > mixed set of managed-virtual-machine or unmanaged-physical-or-virtual-machine > through a single > broker, but neither of them support access to Linux desktops. > > On Sat, Jul 21, 2012 at 2:33 AM, Johan Kragsterman > <johan.kragster...@capvert.se> wrote: > >> Hi, Randall! >> >> >> What you need is a "broker", and a terminal server is working as a "broker". >> There are several >> solutions that will work, but first I would want to know why you need >> physical machines? Are >> there demanding graphical applications you're going to run, or...? >> >> Rgrds Johan >> >> >> -----users-boun...@ovirt.org skrev: ----- >> Till: Itamar Heim <ih...@redhat.com> >> Från: Randall Wood >> Sänt av: users-boun...@ovirt.org >> Datum: 2012.07.20 22:37 >> Kopia: "users@ovirt.org" <users@ovirt.org> >> Ärende: Re: [Users] Managing Remote Access to Physical Workstations >> >> >> On Jul 20, 2012, at 16:30, Itamar Heim <ih...@redhat.com> wrote: >> >> >>> On 07/20/2012 11:13 PM, Randall Wood wrote: >>> >>>> >>>>> No. oVirt's focus is virtual machines so the user portal only lets you >>>>> open up consoles >>>>> on VMs managed by oVirt engine. >>>> >>>> I thought so. >>>> >>>> >>>>> When you say physical machines - would they be Linux or could they be >>>>> Windows? >>>>> I might have an idea ...... >>>>> >>>> >>>> The physical machines would all be RHEL, CentOS, or Fedora. >>>> >>> >>> which protocol would you expect users to use to gain access to this >>> physical machines? >> >> I would prefer SPICE, but could use SPICE, VNC, or RDP. >> _______________________________________________ >> Users mailing list >> Users@ovirt.org >> http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/users >> > > > > -- > Randall Wood > Alexandria Software > http://www.alexandriasoftware.com > randall.h.w...@alexandriasoftware.com 202.683.8604 > _______________________________________________ > Users mailing list > Users@ovirt.org > http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/users > > _______________________________________________ Users mailing list Users@ovirt.org http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/users
