Yeah, why not set up their home directories on a file server, and mount
them on the VMs using NFS? Then you could set the disks for the base system
as non-persistent and then on any reboot it would revert any changes
automatically.
Would that accomplish your needs?
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On Fri, Sep 19, 2014 at 8:35 AM, Geoff Nordli <geo...@gnaa.net> wrote:
> 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
>
>
>
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