IRC chat logs for #ltsp on irc.libera.chat (webchat)


Channel log from 11 December 2018   (all times are UTC)

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11:08
<alkisg>
If I'm reading this correctly, in the future it'll be extremely easy to boot an LTSP chroot via a VM, for easy maintenance: https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=VirtIO-FS-Folder-Sharing-VM
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14:15
<||cw>
neat
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14:44
<||cw>
hm. it says it uses fuse, but it's not clear if that's a layer on top of normal files, or its own fuse fs, though i guess the chroot could live on fuse too
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15:59* alkisg wonders if that's already possible using virtio-9p: https://www.linux-kvm.org/page/9p_virtio
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19:43
<||cw>
it seems to be, but performance lack. might be fine for the occasional edit where chroot won't do
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20:46
<danboid>
Is anyone here running LTSP on AWS or has any tales regarding such?
20:49
I would presume there are no issues with hosting an LTSP server on AWS, provided it is of a suffiecient spec to meet the load
20:50
<||cw>
danboid: I guess it's technically possible, you'll need a stupid fast internet connection to make it usable. the network is usually the weak link
20:50
even 100Mbit is on the slow site for all but the most basic usage
20:51
site/side/
20:52
<danboid>
Of course. I've not tried LTSP on 100Mb yet. We'll be using fat clients
20:53
<highvoltage>
so... you'll just be using AWS as storage essentially
20:56
<danboid>
None of you have ever tried integrating LTSP with AWS or similar? Have you heard of anyone doing so with success?
20:58
<alkisg>
danboid: the ltsp server for fat clientsmostly needs bandwidth, not cpu. Better to use a pentium 4 with a gigabit nic, than a remote monster server
21:01
So personally I wouldn't even waste time testing that "remote fat client server" scenario
21:01
<highvoltage>
danboid: it's an odd fit and you'd still need a local dhcp server
21:01
danboid: so the question then becomes "what's the point"
21:01
<alkisg>
!local-boot
21:01
<ltsp>
local-boot: If you want LTSP fat clients on a low-speed network, you can put i386.img on e.g. C:\Boot\LTSP\i386.img and use this command line in pxelinux.cfg: APPEND ro initrd=ltsp/i386/initrd.img init=/sbin/init-ltsp root=/dev/sda1 rootflags=ro loop=/Boot/LTSP/i386.img; IPAPPEND 3
21:01
<highvoltage>
AWS is horrible typically on di/o bandwidth anyway
21:01
<alkisg>
This ^ could make things a bit better for remote servers... but still yeah, what's the point
21:03
<danboid>
It's something I've been asked to consider / look into as a possibility. I'm struggling to see any benefit in using AWS or similar at all myself
21:03
<alkisg>
Are you currently using ltsp? (the persons that asked you to look into this)
21:04
<danboid>
Yes, 16.04 fat clients and its generally running great, except power off doesn't work
21:04
they reboot instead
21:04
<alkisg>
Yeah that broke later on by systemd updates, but I've only fixed it in 18.04
21:05
<danboid>
Ah right! Good to hear its fixed in 18.04
21:05
<alkisg>
And why are they looking to change to a remote server, any ideas there?
21:06
<danboid>
Its part of a 'cloud first' strategy
21:06
<highvoltage>
lol well it's their funeral.
21:06
<danboid>
In some areas it doesn't make sense and I think LTSP is one
21:07
<alkisg>
I don't think cloud works well yet for remote booting, remote gaming, remote desktop (well slow remote desktop works)
21:08
<danboid>
Totally agree
21:11
Thanks for your thoughts. It's pretty much exactly what I thought you'd say
21:14
Have there been any big-ish deployments of 18.04 LTSP yet?
21:14
Is it deemed stable yet?
21:18
<alkisg>
danboid: http://www.ltsp.org/stories/widget-map/?location=Greece
21:19
Personally I think it's much more stable than 18.04, since I support it in hundreds of schools, while we stopped supporting 16.04 there
21:19
<danboid>
Much more stable than 16.04
21:20
Sounds promising
21:20
<alkisg>
(regarding ltsp, that is; for individual apps like gcompris or whatever, your milage may vary)
21:24
<danboid>
I wrote a script that detects the GPU of the LTSP clients and disables the non-free NVIDIA driver so we can get accelerated gfx on all machines with one LTSP image. Will my script not be required in 18.04?
21:25
<alkisg>
This is a question for #ubuntu-x; but afaik, nvidia drivers can now peacefully coexist with xorg drivers, so I imagine that yes, your script won't be needed
21:26
It's close to midnight here though, /me waves, until tomorrow... :)
21:26
<danboid>
Good night! Thanks!
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