On 14-09-19 12:55 AM, Buday Gergely wrote: > HI Gergely. > > Not sure if this is really the best way to go about it. > > Why not run the VMs from the local Windows 7 classroom machines? > > Geoff > > --- > > Geoff, > > I do want to run the virtual machines on the Windows machines. > > The problem lies at that students do not necessarily take seat at the same > machine from class to class. > > So I want to serve their virtual disks from the network. > > - Gergely >
I see, that makes sense. You mentioned all of the disks are going to be the same except for some configuration changes. How are you planning on deploying these changes? Why do those changes need to be different? Are students going to snapshot the disk at any point? As Jason was pointing out, I think the solution is more around content synchronization than running stuff from the server. Maybe you use the main image as a "base" and then you create snapshots from that for each individual student. The base image would already be on every student computer. Therefore when they sit down you only need to copy in the "snapshot" portion of each student. If you do this will may want to put swap and temp on a different disks to keep change set small; discarding those changes at the end of the session. Their changes would be on their home directory. When they login, they run a script that copies all of that data from their home to the local machine. When they are finished, run the script that saves their data to the server. If you do it this way, they can also do snapshots, since all of that data would get synced to their home dir. Geoff ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Slashdot TV. Video for Nerds. Stuff that Matters. http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=160591471&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ VBox-users-community mailing list VBox-users-community@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/vbox-users-community _______________________________________________ Unsubscribe: mailto:vbox-users-community-requ...@lists.sourceforge.net?subject=unsubscribe
