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Experiences with Replacing Desktops w/ VMs?
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?"
Because avatars on a forum of this size(or even anything approaching such) are a disaster waiting to happen? It only works for Digg because theirs are so small you're better off sticking with the default. And it works for GateWorld because you have to get a certain post number for a custom av and the mods fully delete posts.
Please, for the good of Humanity, vote Obama.
I guess you're a Neal Stephenson fan and want to work for the gov't?
But I do not want to see your ugly mug.
Most (like 98%) of office computers don't need 3D. Besides that, why is 3D impossible in a VM? I have seen .NET and Java apps, which both run on top of a VM, do 3D just fine. And if you want to be cross platform with the VM stick with a standard like OpenGL. Outside some game shops OpenGL is all that is needed. With that, you have roughly 99.999% of office computers covered. That remaining .001% can just (EGAD) avoid using the VM.