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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?"
Do it in Linux - works perfectly and seamlessly!
Author of the parent comment here, I'm not a troll and clearly I was saying it would be a dumb idea to have custom images considering the troll contingent here. If anything I was speaking against it and against trolls, you dumbass moderator.
Why did his second troll got modded "informative"? If he speaks truth, then he's basically saying his no point to the original post, since there's nothing to change. Except that it's still irrelevant to the discussion at hand, and insulting to no purpose.