[Users] Managing Remote Access to Physical Workstations

[Johan Kragsterman]

Hi!

You can check out thinlinc, a system developed by Cendio. I've been using that a lot, and they support both H/W and S/W clients. You can download it for free for testing or for up to 10 users.

http://www.cendio.com/

Rgrds Johan

-----Randall Wood <randall.h.wood at alexandriasoftware.com> skrev: -----
Till: Johan Kragsterman <johan.kragsterman at capvert.se>
Från: Randall Wood <randall.h.wood at alexandriasoftware.com>
Datum: 2012.08.02 14:44
Kopia: "users at ovirt.org" <users at ovirt.org>
Ärende: Re: [Users] Managing Remote Access to Physical Workstations

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 at capvert.se> 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
>
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> Till: Itamar Heim <iheim at redhat.com>
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> Datum: 2012.07.20 22:37
> Kopia: "users at ovirt.org" <users at ovirt.org>
> Ärende: Re: [Users] Managing Remote Access to Physical Workstations
>
> On Jul 20, 2012, at 16:30, Itamar Heim <iheim at redhat.com> 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.
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