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Talking in another thread about my old school and how they had their systems set up, I was reminded of an idea that I have been playing around with for when Cynthia and I get our own place.
The idea is actually pretty straight forward. I want to buy a powerful, yet easily upgradable server, install a VM Server OS on it, and buy a couple of laptops. On the laptops, I want to install nothing but a client to interface with the VM software on the server. If possible, I would like the clients to be the OS's installed on the computers to make things even more simple, but I am not adverse to stripping windows down to only the essentials and run the clients from there as well.
The idea is this. One of us picks up a laptop (both will be exactly the same), and remotes in to our own personal VM on the server. The thought behind this is that we get all of the power from the server, and the flexibility to access our own personal OS's from the laptops, or even remote locations.
There actually is a few questions behind this, but I am not looking for any major type of instruction, so I felt like I should just park this thread in Off Topic for now. (Although suggestions are more than welcome...)
Do you guys think that this has any decent possibilitys, or am I headed down the completely wrong path? I am hoping that once logged into the guest OS on the server, it will behave exactly like it would if installed natively, but with way more power because of the extra hardware. What do you guys think?
The idea is actually pretty straight forward. I want to buy a powerful, yet easily upgradable server, install a VM Server OS on it, and buy a couple of laptops. On the laptops, I want to install nothing but a client to interface with the VM software on the server. If possible, I would like the clients to be the OS's installed on the computers to make things even more simple, but I am not adverse to stripping windows down to only the essentials and run the clients from there as well.
The idea is this. One of us picks up a laptop (both will be exactly the same), and remotes in to our own personal VM on the server. The thought behind this is that we get all of the power from the server, and the flexibility to access our own personal OS's from the laptops, or even remote locations.
There actually is a few questions behind this, but I am not looking for any major type of instruction, so I felt like I should just park this thread in Off Topic for now. (Although suggestions are more than welcome...)
Do you guys think that this has any decent possibilitys, or am I headed down the completely wrong path? I am hoping that once logged into the guest OS on the server, it will behave exactly like it would if installed natively, but with way more power because of the extra hardware. What do you guys think?