Multi client virtualization with dynamic resources and shared users

[austinwilliambrucemilne]

Hey, so I have a weird idea. This might be obvious to some of you. But is it possible to create an overpowered pc that stays in one room in the house, and then have multiple virtual clients around the house, (Easy enough so far) but then each of those client runs dynamically so the resources (gpu horsepower and cpu horsepower as well as one central file storage for non-os data) are shared where they need to be, but also, the user profiles are shared so you could switch from one computer to the other and pull up everything you had running on the other station.

[Electronics Wizardy]

For a home its unpractical and costs more.

 

For a buiness this is called vdi and is used in large deployments(100's of systems)

 

Gpu can't easily be dynamically split, you chose how much of the gpu to give(on a supported grid, tesla, or firepro card) and they its stuck like that until you reboot all the vms.

 

ram can be split easily and given only when need with balloning.

 

CPU is split easily.

 

For a home don't do this, software alone can be in the 1000's and this is made for a full AD setup already.

[austinwilliambrucemilne]

Could you easily have multiple stations (each being there own virtual system) with their own individual sets of users (same people, just not connected) and have a massive shared folder for all of their stuff?

 

And if so, could you also add a virtual machine for media center for a TV and then also a wireless touch screen display?

 

This is all theoretical

[Electronics Wizardy]

3 minutes ago, austinwilliambrucemilne said:

Could you easily have multiple stations (each being there own virtual system) with their own individual sets of users (same people, just not connected) and have a massive shared folder for all of their stuff?

yep, you can have as many stations as you want, but your buying thin clients for all of them and networking them.

 

3 minutes ago, austinwilliambrucemilne said:

And if so, could you also add a virtual machine for media center for a TV

Well, its just gonna be anouther pc runnign windows, not a special media center. Id just run a lower power media device instead.

 

4 minutes ago, austinwilliambrucemilne said:

then also a wireless touch screen display?

You can, but wireless often sucks in cases like this for streaming video.