Re: [Ltsp-developer] Suggestion on how to improve the client-building proocess

[Άλκης Γ. <al...@gm...>]

You can just install a distro in a vm in bridged mode, and use that for the
ltsp server.
I don't see any reason to make things more complicated than that.

Στις Σάβ, 6 Οκτ 2018 - 17:20 ο χρήστης Franz Dietrich <
die...@te...> έγραψε:

> Hey all,
>
> I truely dislike the idea of having a "forced" same setup for server and
> clients - which is why I'm having a chroot setup...
> however I do understand, that many teachers would like to install and
> maintain graphically.
>
> An alternative approach to the current would be to maintain a qemu-vm of
> the client image and package this quemu as bootimage.
> So the workflow for the server woud be:
>
>     1. install packages (graphically),
>     2. launch "manage-client"
>     3. get a window with a virtual machine that will then be installed
>     4. do all the setup etc.
>     5. on shutdown of the vm the image is built/updated
>
> Any thoughts on the feasability, time needed to implement this?
>
> My guess is that this approach would be much cleaner and would require
> not too much additional code - though a lot would be needed to change.
> I also think it would be less confusing for those who only maintain the
> image without deeper linux knowledge.
>
> All the best
> Franz (enaut in irc)
>
> Am 05.10.2018 um 22:42 schrieb Dashamir Hoxha:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I noticed recently that whatever I install on the ltsp-server
> > ends up running on the ltsp-clients as well (with chrootless mode).
> > Actually this is a well-known fact, but I didn't think there was
> > anything wrong with it, until I realized that apache2, and tomcat,
> > and mysql were running on the client too, eating up a lot of ram!
> >
> > As a workaround I changed the order of scripts so that the image
> > of the ltsp-client is generated as soon as possible, and then we
> > proceed with the other installations and configurations, with
> > guacamole, etc.
> >
> > However this solution has the drawback that afterwards you cannot
> > install any more packages on the client image (if you need to).
> > The only way is to rebuild the ltsp-server from scratch, and this takes
> > a lot of time (about one hour), since lots of things have to be
> > downloaded and installed (sometimes even compiled from source).
> >
> > Is it possible to unpack the image of a chrootless client to a directory,
> > to chroot to this directory and install any additional packages, and
> > then to pack it back again? This could be much faster than rebuilding
> > the whole server from scratch (and also more elegant).
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Dashamir
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
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