Microsoft Windows on my Sun Ray 2

[doseryder]

In your demonstration, did you access your sunray server via internet or is it on a lan? How much bandwidth do you need for it to run relatively smoothly?

[mcornelia]

This was locally - but we also do it remotely. Min bandwidth is 256KBs for basic apps like e-mail and word processing. Multimedia apps really need to be local in my experience, although the Beta Sun ray software has apparently greatly improved this.

[gimplar]

Sun Ray is a thin client. The windows machine/ Linux machine / Solaris machines aren't necessarily discrete computers. They are Virtual Machines running on a VMWare ESX server.

It's pretty much like having a computer that is powerful enough to run Windows Remote Desktop and remote desktoping into your virtual machine.

Benefit is that maintenance is much easier and you have a single computer that can be moved to any location using their java card.

[cybercow222]

the software is called Sun Ray Software 4 and there is both Linux / Windows connector, you have a 90 day demo trial ... and the hack, yes it`s damn pretty coool thing ...

[cs512tr]

the windows 'connector'? hiw do you use that, is that via Virtual Desktop Infrastructure?

thanks

[avatar1349]

This is really very good

The functionality from windows and the security of Solaris

Very impressive!!!

[javedabdul]

how did you do that

i am now very keen to know .

that really really really cooooooooooool

I would like to know the configuration stuff..

thanks

[avatar1349]

I've been looking for it as well

The program thats been used is Win4Solaris

Google for it

[Phobos11]

win4solaris is based on QEMU, so I think you can achieve the same using QEMU or virtualbox... or even xVM (Xen)

[mrjonnoma]

@Phobos11 And now with Joyent contributing to Illumos through their OpenSolaris based SmartOS cluod OS, you can also use KVM virtualization that is not bound to justLinux anymore, but available on (Open) Solaris based distributions (SmartOS, OpenIndiana and other on top of Illumos). Using Solaris zones together with also Joyent contributed disk-usage bandwith control on top of ZFS, you can achieve best of both worlds AND also you can run Windows inside KVM if needed.

[keksonja]

can i run 3d applications on sunray like softimage xsi ? or 3dsmax?