[Gllug] virtualisation under LTSP

[Alain Williams]

On Thu, Nov 15, 2007 at 12:56:24PM +0000, Ryan Cartwright wrote:

> My personal choice is Qemu so what I want to know is:
> 
> * If the LTSP has Qemu installed, can I make it available to the clients?
> * If so - will I need different images for each client or can I use just
> the one?
> 
> Also does anybody have any idea how the Windows licencing works with
> virtualisation?
> The Win98 machines are OEM so I'm not sure if I can use those legally
> running on LTSP and Qemu. I can probably round up WinXP licences but I
> heard something about MS putting additional stuff in re: virtualisation.

AFIK it is OK with MS XP - I have done it with XP under Xen; it works OK.
It also works under Qemu (slower, but easier to get going - Xen is a pig).
The console is exported via VNC so you should be able to have one person
at a time (keep with the license) connect to it from their workstation.

MS made restrictions on MS Vista over running under virtualisation, they
changed the details a couple of time but I think that you need to buy the
more expensive one to be able (legally) to do it.

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