[Discuss] Boston Linux Meeting Reminder, tomorrow, Wednesday, July 18 , 2012 - The Virtual Desktop

[Jerry Feldman]

On 07/18/2012 11:49 AM, Brendan Kidwell wrote:
> (I probably shouldn't have addressed my reply to 'announce' -- I
> assume that's not allowed. Sending again to Jerry and to 'discuss'.)
>
> On Tue, Jul 17, 2012 at 7:32 AM, Jerry Feldman <gaf at blu.org> wrote:
>> When: July 18, 2012 7PM (6:30PM for Q&A)
>> Topic: The Virtual Desktop
>> Moderator:Jerry Feldman
>> Location: MIT Building E51, Room 315
>> ...
>> I'm also looking at running a VMM as a service. Depends
>> if I have the time to check it out or not.
> When this BLU meeting was first announced, I mentioned that I have a
> howto for running VirtualBox as a service in Linux and that the init.d
> script in the article needed updating.
>
> I polished up the script last night and it should work just fine now
> in current Ubuntu and Fedora installations.
> https://github.com/bkidwell/vbox-service-template . Later today I'll
> remove the old script from the howto article and point the article and
> script to each other. If there's time this evening I can spend 5 to 10
> minutes walking through a demo if the audience is interested.
>
> Running desktop-hosted VMs on servers other than VirtualBox is left as
> an exercise for the reader. :^)
>
> Brendan
>
>
I reference Brendan's blog in my presentation. Why don't we plan for a
short demo. I'd be interested.,

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