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[Attila Sukosd <attila.sukosd@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

Just wanna pitch in and say that we've also been testing RedHat Enterprise
Virtualization since 2.x and now on 3.x.

For our use case the 2.x with the Windows based manager has been quite bad,
especially that we tried to use their RESTful API which was a wrapper for
their powershell tools.
A lot has improved since then, and with the Linux manager things are
working relatively nicely.

As for SPICE and GPU usage, it doesn't. Right now there is no 3D
acceleration either on the server side, or on the client side. There are
some plans of adding either an OpenGL passthrough so beefier "thin" clients
to render 3D locally, and some other plans for using techniques similar to
VirtualGL to render 3D on the server side.
All the encoding etc are done on the CPU currently.

As an alternative to Proxmox, Ganeti (http://code.google.com/p/ganeti/)
could also be used, though it can be a bit intimidating to setup at first
compared to Proxmox. They have recently added Spice support (version 2.6.0).

Best,

Attila

On Thu, Jan 17, 2013 at 2:52 PM, Bolesław Tokarski <
boleslaw.tokarski@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hello,
>
>
> On 01/16/2013 04:20 PM, Zieba, Pawel wrote:
>
>> Maybe a DaaS would be a good option?
>>
>> We are evaluating this concept right now.
>>
>>  Which DaaS are you evaluating? I would love to have some first-hand
> experience from someone I know.
>
>
> On 01/16/2013 06:26 PM, David Burke wrote:
>
>> Proxmox - This is my preferred solution for server virtualization. It's a
>> gui for KVM and openvz. I minimally trained sys admin can set up a new VM
>> in minutes with it.
>>
>
> I understand it misses the desktop virtualization features like dynamic VM
> provisioning and some user-portal?
>
>
>  LTSP - Have you considered this? It's not virtualization it's just multi
>> user Linux. I use it in a computer lab type scenario. I've posted about it
>> http://davidmburke.com/2012/**02/26/computer-lab-on-the-**cheap/<http://davidmburke.com/2012/02/26/computer-lab-on-the-cheap/>
>>
>
> Thanks for the link, I was astonished by the fact that LTSP has such an
> extensive documentation site on help.ubuntu.com, I envy them :)
>
>
>  The issues it has (video processing, external devices are hit or miss)
>> are likely going to be issues with any solution for desktop virtualization.
>>
>
> I guess yes-and-no. Thanks to desktop virtualization we got those design
> that offloads video processing to the client (terminal). However, I am
> aware that you can use the SPICE protocol to pass audio&video from a
> physical machine, though I guess this is not that often used.
>
>
>  I am also a fool and don't use a server with a decent GPU made for this
>> sort of thing.
>>
>
> Let somebody correct me if I am wrong, but I do not know how the server
> GPU has anything to do with the client display. You are not using the
> server's monitor anyway, right? I might be missing something, I guess also
> there was a reason for Martinx Thiago to provide the multiple GPUs to his
> server. Anyone has an idea?
>
>
> Cheers,
> Ballock
>
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