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Classroom with thinclients and proxmox-backed VMs - What are my options? (lemmy.world)
submitted 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) by poinck@lemmy.world to c/proxmox@lemmy.world
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I have a room with 30 thinclients currently running Windows with the possibility to open RDP sessions.

The current setup using VMWare is slow even for 2D content. That is why I want to replace it with Proxmox. What can I expect? I suspect the current setup is using SAN, I want to go ZFS on local drives.

I experimented in a homelab on KVM to see how fast the VMs can become. With 8 cores Google Earth becomes somewhat usable over RDP. But imagine 30 students using it on the same VM. The VM is Debian 13 btw.

I also experiemented with spice and 3D acceleration, but it works only locally and does not support multiple logins. What other options do I have. Even when I setup the VM to use virgl it uses software rendering over RDP. I thought of replacing the Windows on the thinclients with Linux, but then I would need individual VMs for every student and a secure spice session. Is that even possible? I would need a potent GPU in the server, maybe more than one. Is a 64 core CPU and 512 GB RAM enough for 30 students?

I've read that proxmox uses temporary .vv files for noVNC in the browser. I hope this can be setup permanently to be accessible over the network.

Any advice or new ideas are welcome!

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[โ€“] stevestevesteve@lemmy.world 6 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) (1 children)

What do the students need to do?

You've basically just asked "is an XL tshirt big enough for me" without telling us how big you are.

[โ€“] poinck@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago

They need to do GIS (QGIS, R and Python), which is doable with only 2D, but sometimes they rely on some webapps that would benefit from from webgl being not slow.