Honestly unless you are doing heavy graphics RDP is nice now-a-days. At work we have a vmware cluster that hosts vms for access to sensitive data. Then we access that via VPN and RDP. -- Jason Barbier | E: jab...@serversave.us GPG Key-ID: B5F75B47(http://kusuriya.devio.us/pubkey.asc) On Sat, Mar 26, 2016, at 06:11 AM, Edward Ned Harvey (lopser) wrote: > Suppose you have a mac (or a bunch of people using macs) and you want > to have windows too. Option 1 is to use vmware/parallels/virtualbox, > and run the windows VM inside the mac. The problem here is forcing the > need for expensive mac upgrades in cpu, memory, and disk space, and > then there are no good backup options for the windows VM. Time machine > is great at most stuff but terrible at backing up guest VM's. Windows > backup software also sucks (the best I can find is acronis, which > leaves a lot to be desired). The requirement is whole-system windows > snapshot. Therefore, it's highly desirable for the windows VM storage > to exist someplace like a netapp or zfs filesystem, that can easily > snapshot windows for backups. Which brings me to the topic of VDI. > > I can easily make a windows VM available from the LAN or cloud server > infrastructure, and access it via RDP. But the user experience over > RDP is nowhere near as slick as the user experience of a physical > machine, or local VM. > > I'm pretty sure there are VDI solutions that make great steps toward > providing a local/native user experience, for windows machines > accessed over the network. Right? > > Googling around, I'm not finding much. It seems most likely I don't > have the right terminology. > _________________________________________________ > Tech mailing list > Tech@lists.lopsa.org > https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech > This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators > http://lopsa.org/
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