Comments on: Old PC? Make it a thin client!

By: william bishop

william bishop — Sun, 17 May 2009 02:25:13 +0000

Why this instead of the thinstation project? We did hundreds of pc’s as thin clients during our initial buildout, using the tsom (tsomatic) server, which lets you custom build thin clients.

By: The VMguy

The VMguy — Wed, 13 May 2009 02:42:10 +0000

sorry nappyrat, I can’t comment on products in development outside of the information already disclosed in the announcement.

By: nappyrat

nappyrat — Wed, 06 May 2009 13:21:49 +0000

From the press announcement reguarding CVP

“VMware CVP is a bare-metal client hypervisor optimized to run on desktop and notebook client PCs utilizing Intel® Core®2 and Centrino® 2 processors with Intel® vPro™ technology.”

So cvp will require a minimum of a core2 processor? this doesn’t quality as an “old pc” for most!

By: JustinE

JustinE — Wed, 06 May 2009 00:09:47 +0000

There’s actually a cheap and easy way to do this on existing older PCs using Windows Foundation for Legacy PCs, no extra hardware required. I gave a step-by-step on my blog a little over a month ago:
http://vmjunkie.wordpress.com/2009/03/25/making-a-thin-client-on-fat-hardware-part-1/