Re: [Ltsp-discuss] How to enbable local devices in LTSP for Ubuntu 10.04

[B M. <buf...@gm...>]

Not really but I will look up Fat Clients to understand I really
appreciate your help, I have been trying to get this to work for a while
now.  I will do more reading.

On Fri, 2010-09-24 at 09:34 -0600, David Burgess wrote: 
> On Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 9:04 AM, B Marl <buf...@gm...> wrote:
> > Sorry basically I am running a Ubuntu 10.04 64bit LTSP server, I have a
> > passmark bunin test on all of my clients desktop, but it only pulls
> > information from my server.  Which is good if I wanted to test my server
> > from a different location but I want to probe and poll my clients to
> > test for equipment failures and such.  I want to have pretty much all my
> > local devices available while running the ltsp, I was told that I can
> > only do this by a PXE build is that true?
> 
> I don't know if that's true, but it feels like the wrong way to go
> about it. Your approach suggests that you intend to run the test from
> the server, or from a thin client's desktop (effectively the same
> thing), but you want it to have access to thin client hardware.
> 
> It seems to make more sense to me to run your burnin test from the
> thin client's own OS, where it would have native access to all the
> hardware. Does your burnin test work in a shell? If so, just install
> it in the chroot and run it from vt1 or through ssh/pssh. If your
> burnin test requires gnome/Xorg/$SomeDesktop then you might have less
> headaches booting your thin clients as fat clients for the duration of
> the test. Despite the thin clients being less powerful than the server
> individually, the parallel (concurrent) nature of this approach may
> end up being quicker than trying to cram it all through the server.
> 
> Does that make sense?
> 
> db
> 
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