[ovirt-users] Desktop virtualization and thin clients

[Giulio Casella]

On 10/04/2017 16:40, René Koch wrote:
> I used thin clients from IGEL in many setups. If you want good
> multimedia performance (watching full HD videos in your vm) you need
> the UD5. IGEL is a good solution when it comes to managing thin clients
> as they have a great management server for it. The downside is that
> IGEL thin clients aren't really cheap and remote viewer comes in a
> quite old version.
>
> One of my customers uses Intel NUC devices with Fedora on it (PXE boot)
> and has a much better performance as with IGEL UD5, but to be fair he
> compared it with the 5 year old UD5 model. This is mainly because of
> the newer processors in Intel NUC and new virt-viewer of Fedora.


Yes, a customized fedora, distributed via PXE is exactly our solution. 
Often many thin (or zero) clients lacks of CPU power and graphics 
performance (a symptom is that audio and video are out of sync). I'll 
give a try to Intel NUC.

Thank you,
Giulio