[SAC] [OSGeo] #2919: vms for labs on osgeo8 - remote.osgeo.org

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#2919: vms for labs on osgeo8 - remote.osgeo.org
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 Reporter:  robe           |      Owner:  sac@…
     Type:  task           |     Status:  new
 Priority:  normal         |  Milestone:  Sysadmin Contract 2023-I
Component:  Systems Admin  |   Keywords:
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 This is still a work in progress but looks promising.

 I took the latest livecd http://download.osgeo.org/livedvd/nightly
 /osgeolive-nightly-build40-amd64-1949c1b-master.iso

 and was able to create a VM on osgeo8 and then made a copy of that vm.
 So there is an live-desktop and live-desktop-2

 Which are accessible thru meshcentral (https://meshcentral.com/info/)

 https://remote.osgeo.org

 Anyone interested in testing them out, let me know and I'll create account
 on remote.osgeo.org for you to test them out.

 The performance thru the browser seems pretty decent, the clipboard copy
 paste (between remote and local user desktop) takes a bit of getting used
 to.

 Anyway my plan is to maybe setup a bunch of these. They don't need to be
 on osgeo8 (can be on other servers or even cloud ones we have the
 meshcentral client installed on) and so we can have a backup for those who
 have issues with the livecd disk.

 Copying the vms is pretty instant.  Only thing I have to do after setting
 them up is change their hostnames so they don't appear all the same in
 remote.osgeo.org.

 I think I can also allocate machines to particular users so that way for a
 lab, we can define  guest user accounts for people to use and destroy them
 after.
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Ticket URL: <https://trac.osgeo.org/osgeo/ticket/2919>
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