Yes, I have a few of those available. They are nice (when the bandwidth is there to support them). I'm looking for a single broker interface for both physical and virtual machines that supports both Windows and Linux. On Thu, Aug 2, 2012 at 9:03 AM, Sigbjorn Lie <sigbjorn(a)nixtra.com&gt; wrote: > Hi, > > > Have you looked at Teradici PCoIP? They have a hardware solution based on a PCIe card in the > host machine, and a PCoIP thin client. The performance is stunning. You don't even notice that > you're connected to a thin client. I'm using this on a daily basis myself. > > To get a broker you can use Leostream's Connection Broker which supports Teradici PCoIP both > for Windows and Linux. > > > You will be needing the thin client when connecting. I don't think you can use a software > client to connect to the physical machines. You can ask Leostream about this. > > See the following youtube video for more info: > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NWjhAHDQZ7E > > > This solution is for physical machines, not virtual machines. > > > > Regards, > Siggi > > > > > > On Thu, August 2, 2012 14:44, Randall Wood wrote: > >> Sorry for the delay in responding. >> >> >> >> I have a set of users (about 50) who have Linux workstations at their >> desks. These users have root access to these workstations, and these workstations are >> frequently host VMs or are used for hardware driver development and support. These users have >> access to a pool of managed Windows 7 VMs (for MS Office applications) in oVirt, so they are >> already using the oVirt user portal. I would like to give these users remote access to their >> workstations (from thin clients in conference rooms, from home, from corporate laptops on the >> road, etc) using the same User Portal that they already use for the Windows VMs. >> >> VMware View and Citrix XenDesktop support providing users access to a >> mixed set of managed-virtual-machine or unmanaged-physical-or-virtual-machine through a single >> broker, but neither of them support access to Linux desktops. >> >> On Sat, Jul 21, 2012 at 2:33 AM, Johan Kragsterman >> <johan.kragsterman(a)capvert.se&gt; wrote: >> >> >>> Hi, Randall! >>> >>> >>> >>> What you need is a "broker", and a terminal server is working as a "broker". There are >>> several solutions that will work, but first I would want to know why you need physical >>> machines? Are there demanding graphical applications you're going to run, or...? >>> >>> Rgrds Johan >>> >>> >>> >>> -----users-bounces(a)ovirt.org skrev: ----- >>> Till: Itamar Heim <iheim(a)redhat.com&gt; >>> Från: Randall Wood >>> Sänt av: users-bounces(a)ovirt.org >>> Datum: 2012.07.20 22:37 >>> Kopia: &quot;users(a)ovirt.org&quot; <users(a)ovirt.org&gt; >>> Ärende: Re: [Users] Managing Remote Access to Physical Workstations >>> >>> >>> >>> On Jul 20, 2012, at 16:30, Itamar Heim <iheim(a)redhat.com&gt; wrote: >>> >>> >>> >>>> On 07/20/2012 11:13 PM, Randall Wood wrote: >>>> >>>> >>>>> >>>>>> No. oVirt's focus is virtual machines so the user portal only lets you open up >>>>>> consoles on VMs managed by oVirt engine. >>>>> >>>>> I thought so. >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>>> When you say physical machines - would they be Linux or could they be Windows? >>>>>> I might have an idea ...... >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>> >>>>> The physical machines would all be RHEL, CentOS, or Fedora. >>>>> >>>>> >>>> >>>> which protocol would you expect users to use to gain access to this physical machines? >>> >>> I would prefer SPICE, but could use SPICE, VNC, or RDP. >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Users mailing list >>> Users(a)ovirt.org >>> http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/users >>> >>> >> >> >> >> -- >> Randall Wood >> Alexandria Software >> http://www.alexandriasoftware.com >> randall.h.wood(a)alexandriasoftware.com 202.683.8604 >> _______________________________________________ >> Users mailing list >> Users(a)ovirt.org >> http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/users >> >> >> > > -- Randall Wood Alexandria Software http://www.alexandriasoftware.com randall.h.wood(a)alexandriasoftware.com 202.683.8604