[K12OSN] Virtualized Windows on K12LTSP

[Steven Santos]

What is the application you are trying to run?  

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Steven Santos
Director, Simply Circus, Inc.
Email: Steven at SimplyCircus.com
 Mail: 14 Pierrepont Road
       Newton, MA 02462
Phone: 617-527-0667
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: k12osn-bounces at redhat.com [mailto:k12osn-bounces at redhat.com]On
> Behalf Of Nils Breunese
> Sent: Saturday, May 24, 2008 10:27 AM
> To: Support list for open source software in schools.
> Subject: [K12OSN] Virtualized Windows on K12LTSP
> 
> 
> Hello all,
> 
> I have a pretty beefy K12LTSP 5EL 64-bit server setup with about 10  
> thin clients attached. This is working fine, but there is one legacy  
> Windows application my users need. I kept a couple of Windows XP  
> installations around which they can use for this application, but I'd  
> like to get rid of those machines. There have been some attempts at  
> getting the application to work under Wine, but no luck so far.
> 
> I'm thinking of setting up a virtual Windows XP machine on the K12LTSP  
> server. The server is a Dell PowerEdge 2900 with a quad-core Intel  
> Xeon E5320 1.86 GHz (which supports Intel's VT virtualization  
> extension) and 4 GB RAM. What virtualization method would people  
> recommend for doing this? KVM, QEMU (+kqemu/qvm86), VirtualBox, VMware  
> Server, Xen? I think Xen is the only method that's available from the  
> K12LTSP/CentOS repositories, right? Plus it's open source. I have used  
> VMware Server on a desktop machine in the past for testing.
> 
> Is anybody else running a virtual Windows installation on K12LTSP? How  
> did you go about this?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Nils Breunese.
> 
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