[FreeNX-kNX] virtualbox, sdl, rdp, freenx, xen

[Chris Fanning]

Hi,

I imagine that I'm not the only one in the list that has to deal with
windows applicactions. Although life would be a lot easier without
them, it doesn't look like we can escape from M$ completely (at least
for the moment).

In my case, I have users sharing the same gnu/linux box runnng KDE
sessions and a seperate w2k3 server running window-terminal-server for
windows apps via RDP.

Yesterday a colleague opened his xfce sessions via freeNX and
installed Virtualbox. Within 15 minutes he had installed XP. And that
got us thinking about the need for the w2k3 server and the expensive
terminal server licences.

Virtualbox uses SDL (right?), that means we can circumnavigate RPD
(and the licences), couldn't we?
Each user could have his on virtual windows running on his kde desktop.

After reading that SUN has recently bought Virtualvox and intends to
use it with xen,  we're wondering
Resource management of the virtaulbox instances would be important.
Perhaps this is where Xen comes into it. but how?

I was hoping someone on the list might have an opinion on this.

Thanks.
Chris.