[OT] kontact in VMWare/NX/... on 'doze (was: Stupid(?) questions wrt Toltec)

[radoeka]

On Thu, Apr 20, 2006 at 08:11:44AM +0200, T. Ribbrock wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 19, 2006 at 09:39:40PM +0200, Richard Bos wrote:
> > 
> > You might be better of NX instead of vmware...
> > You can get NX from http://www.nomachine.com/
> > Tell NX to connect to an NX server running on linux.  The NX client can start 
> > 1 application (called custom in the NX setup).  I have tht setup last week 
> > for a collegue and he seems very happy with that.  It works better than 
> > vmware (I think) as the NX is really integrated into the MS desktop, while 
> > vmware is more on its own....  Besides that NX is free is vmware is not ;)
> 
> I'll have to think that one through. One of our goals was that all work
> environments are exactly the same, which can be achieved with VMWare, as
> you basically get the exact same environment as on our Linux workstations.
> 
> How about the hardware requirements for the server if some 10-15 people
> need to run sessions at the same time?

How big is your server?  I run 14 kde sessions on a 3GHz, 2 GB system
and that works quite well. If you would run kontact as only application
I think that you the performance will be okay and less memory is needed.

-- 
Richard