[PVE-User] VDI on Proxmox anyone?

[Angel Docampo]

Hi there!

I have set up proxmox as VDI infrastructure for a while and it works 
great. While the experience is quite good on enterprise environments, is 
true that online videos are too expensive in network terms.

What I'm using to connect to the VDIs is x2go TCE 
(http://wiki.x2go.org/doku.php/wiki:advanced:tce:install), is based on 
nx and it's jpeg compression or whatever it uses reduces it's bandwidth 
to a level you can connect even through a DSL connection from home. 
Highly recommended to test it out. Online videos, far from perfect, are 
pretty less laggy than on spice.

Regards,

On 30/09/15 15:59, Dimitris Beletsiotis wrote:
> Hello,
>
> >>Is youtube not working due to the network speed, or are there generally
> >>problems with video compression/transfer via SPICE?
>
> Youtube is working but not like the native experience (there are some 
> glitches in audio and video).
> I see 50-70 Mbps net traffic between the spice-server (proxmox) and 
> the spice-client when youtube video is running, I consider this too high.
> Normal traffic is around 1-2 Mbps and some times is reaching 10 Mbps.
>
> >>What I moreover would like to know is how you do updates on the Win7
> >>desktops - do you do this on each single machine or do you somehow do
> >>these updates on a "golden image" from where you clone your current
> >>working image?
>
> To accomplish above with proxmox I believe that you need to use the 
> linked clones feature (I have not tested in production), see:
> https://www.proxmox.com/en/news/press-releases/proxmox-ve-3-0-released
> https://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/VM_Templates_and_Clones
>
> Just tried a simple test:
>
>
> ​
> -Create a template from an existing win7 image to use as the base 
> image, vmid 301
> -Create a linked clone from the above for a user, vmid 302
> -Create a full clone from vmid 301 to update the base image (e.g. 
> perform software updates), vmid 303
> -Create a linked clone from the above to update the image to the user, 
> vmid 303
>
> As you can see below sizes of linked clones are very low (it always 
> depends to the size of changes applied) compared to the base image of 
> 100G.
> The time required to create the linked clones from the template is few 
> secs.
>
> ./301:
> total 82G
> -r--r--r-- 1 root root 101G Sep 30 13:02 base-301-disk-1.qcow2
> ./302:
> total 210M
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 210M Sep 30 13:47 vm-302-disk-1.qcow2
> ./303:
> total 81G
> -r--r--r-- 1 root root 100G Sep 30 13:36 base-303-disk-1.raw
> ./304:
> total 307M
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 307M Sep 30 13:47 vm-304-disk-1.qcow2
>
> Best Regards,
> Dimitris
>
> On Tue, Sep 29, 2015 at 5:18 PM, Hermann Himmelbauer <hermann at qwer.tk 
> <mailto:hermann at qwer.tk>> wrote:
>
>     Am 29.09.2015 um 15:39 schrieb Dimitris Beletsiotis:
>     > Hello,
>     >
>     > For VDI on proxmox you can use Spice protocol/console, for more info
>     > see https://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/SPICE
>     > Win7 desktop is working perfectly stable and is fine for basic
>     office usage.
>     > Audio works fine, youtube streaming is problematic for me.
>     >
>     > If you have many workstations you can use ZFS storage with
>     deduplication
>     > enabled to save big on storage needs.
>
>     Thanks for info, very interesting!
>
>     Is youtube not working due to the network speed, or are there
>     generally
>     problems with video compression/transfer via SPICE?
>
>     What I moreover would like to know is how you do updates on the Win7
>     desktops - do you do this on each single machine or do you somehow do
>     these updates on a "golden image" from where you clone your current
>     working image?
>
>     Best Regards,
>     Hermann
>
>
>
>
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