On Wednesday 18 October 2006 06:16, Dale Beams wrote:
I ran across this article about a program that will allow you to run a VMPlayer from a USB key on any Windows XP SP2 Machine. I don't see why this would be hard to do from any Linux machine as well.
http://mcpmag.com/columns/article.asp?editorialsid=1500#post http://www.moka5.com/
A quick way to show somebody linux without any mess. An idea for ITEC ?
I designed a thin client server system that optionally delivers VMWare Player to the client so that it may run a VMWare image off the server in "snapshot" mode. In snapshot mode, changes are stored to a seperate file. Using some clever NFS and symlink tricks, I trick VMware Player in to storing the snapshot file in a IP-address-specific directory on the server. So, essentially, they can run Windows w/o a hard drive.
It also serves a Linux desktop in the same way that a Live CD works.
I would be willing to bring a server and few client systems to demo with.