Project Scope:
Look into the various issues around providing prepackaged Windows VMs to students
Project Goals: Answer the following questions:
- Can we produce a VM that is joined to the domain? What are the issues related to this?
- Any advantages to: Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7 in this model?
- Does our student MSCA licensing allow us any options to make Windows VMs available to students?
- What if they are in the domain?
- What if we charge a per-head fee?
- What if they are locked down somehow?
- Does VMware allow virtual machine changes while the VM is shut down, that could be done via scripting or an MSI or installer wrapper? For example, could we change the MAC address?
- How big would a useful VM storage be? Could it fit on an 8GB thumb drive? 16GB?
Project Lead:
Timeline:
2-3 weeks starting June 22, 2009
Deliverable:
Report with detailed answers to the questions for later use by Duncan Kincaid and Jim Cain.
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