Experiences with Replacing Desktops w/ VMs?

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Wednesday August 16, 2006 @04:14PM from the a-novel-idea dept.

E1ven asks: "After years of dealing with broken machines, HAL incompatibility, and other Windows frustrations, I'd like to investigate moving to an entirely VM-based solution. Essentially, when an employee comes in in the morning, have them log-in, and automatically download their VM from the server. This gives the benefits of network computing, in that they can sit anywhere, if their machine breaks, we can instantly replace it, etc, and the hope is that the VM will run at near-native speeds. We have gigabit to all of the desktops, so I'm not too worried about network bandwidth, if we keep the images small. Has anyone ever tried this on a large scale? How did it work out for you? What complications did you run of that I probably haven't thought of?"

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Why not just use sunrays? by scubamage · 2006-08-16 16:23 · Score: 5, Insightful

Get some Sun Microsystems SunRays. Seriously.. thats exactly how they work. Your session can be saved on server and resumed anywhere else you plug in your smart card. One server and all of the terminals you need.