IRC chat logs for #ltsp on irc.libera.chat (webchat)
Channel log from 1 October 2020 (all times are UTC)
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| 16:00 | <Aison0> hello all, I would like to create a streaming box based on linux, that directly boots into a single software (kodi). This os should be started on many tiny clients over network.
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| 16:01 | Is LTSP the right choice for that? I already have a network with router, fileserver, etc... running ISC-DHCP and BIND9. It looks like LTSP is using DNSMASQ
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| 16:01 | <alkisg> If it's debian based, sure
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| 16:03 | <Aison0> My Fileserver also acts as host for other virtual machines. Is it recommended to create a dedicated server for LTSP (as virtual machine?)
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| 16:04 | Fileserver is ubuntu server 20.04
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| 16:04 | <alkisg> No, the same server is fine
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| 16:05 | Use a vm for the client template disk
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| 16:05 | <Aison0> ok
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| 16:05 | vmdk is ok I guess (the template disk will be a ZFS ZVOL)
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| 16:08 | <alkisg> use flat vmdk, single partition, ext4
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| 16:08 | It gets squashfs'ed anyway
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| 16:13 | <Aison0> ok
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| 16:16 | <alkisg> Aison0: to be clear, the client VM is the one that needs to be debian-based
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| 16:16 | The server isn't important
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| 16:16 | <Aison0> yes, I also use ubuntu as client. But I remove as many packages as possible
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| 16:16 | <alkisg> No problem there
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| 16:17 | It's not even a problem if you leave the packages, as they don't take up ram from the client
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| 16:17 | They just take a bit of space on the server, which isn't important at all
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| 16:17 | E.g. last time I tried something "tiny", my server image was 10 GB, and the client booted while only using 25 MB RAM (debian wheezy)
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| 16:18 | <Aison0> :D
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| 16:18 | currently my client is around 5GB
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| 16:19 | I wonder If I should put all clients into their own VLAN
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| 16:20 | Is a swap file or partition required?
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| 16:21 | <alkisg> In the client vm? No
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| 16:21 | <Aison0> ok
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| 16:22 | <alkisg> Re: security, usually the clients don't have root access so they can't fiddle much
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| 16:22 | You should worry more about someone bringing their own linux laptop, than hacking into one of the clients...
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| 16:26 | If one is too worried, sure, vlans or wireguard are good options
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| 16:28 | <Aison0> ok :)
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| 16:28 | In fact, VLAN is no problem here, since we use only managed switches, where I can set the vlan for each port
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| 18:46 | <Hyperbyte> Ook gefeliciteerd :-)
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| 22:12 | <Aison0> I created an ubuntu image
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| 22:12 | but somehow it hangs during initrd
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| 22:13 | do I have to add some special packages?
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| 22:15 | because else it looks fine so far
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| 22:15 | the thin clients detects pxe loader and enters iPXE boot menu
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| 22:15 | there I can select my created image
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| 22:15 | the image is loaded and executed
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| 22:15 | but then the boot process hangs
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| 22:17 | maybe it is a problem of the nfs kernel server
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| 22:23 | ok, my nfs server supports only nfsv4
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| 22:23 | and it looks like ltsp wants v3
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