You may want to research Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI). Oracle has a solution like that, powered by VirtualBox, available:
http://www.oracle.com/us/technologies/virtualization/oraclevm/061153.html On Sun, Sep 19, 2010 at 15:32, Fabrizio Carrai <[email protected]> wrote: > Eric understood quite well my request. I try to add more details, aiming to > clarify the problem. > > Using virtualisation you can have more O.S. running on the same HW. If you > are a single user, there are no problem accessing each virtual machine: you > can have a windows for each session. > > But if you have few physical users that want access the virtual machines, > then they need a their own PC accessing via RDP the mentioned Virtual > machines. Being the virtual machine the system of interest, the clients > would be "stripped down" as much as possible. I would like to distrubute > several CDs on "old" machines, with no O.S. installed on local HD. Once boot > from the CD the user will connect to the VM. > > There are no particular requirements on the clients: a fluid remote desktop > will be enough. No games, or other resource demanding options. > > As I also admitted in my first mail, the request itself is O.T., but > strongly push toward the adoption of the virtualization (through the use of > VirtualBox, of course). > > jdd: VNC looks ok, but what I'm searching for is a bootable CD with a system > that would include and automatically start it. -- " ' With the first link, the chain is forged. The first speech censured, the first thought forbidden, the first freedom denied, chains us all irrevocably.' Those words were uttered by Judge Aaron Satie as wisdom and warning... The first time any man's freedom is trodden on we’re all damaged." - Jean-Luc Picard, quoting Judge Aaron Satie, Star Trek: TNG episode "The Drumhead" - Alex Smith (K4RNT) - Murfreesboro, Tennessee USA ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Start uncovering the many advantages of virtual appliances and start using them to simplify application deployment and accelerate your shift to cloud computing. http://p.sf.net/sfu/novell-sfdev2dev _______________________________________________ VBox-users-community mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/vbox-users-community
