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Network storage != Virtual Machine
Authored by: gabester on Oct 09, '08 09:51:25AM

From what I can tell from glancing over these instructions, this is essentially another way to map network shares including home directories - you are not actually running VMs on each of the Macs but rather have an OS X install on each box and then used the Disccloud software to access network storage.

This is already possible with Mac OS X Server or even Active Directory, so I am not sure what this accomplishes unless I have missed something.

Disccloud will not allow me to create a virtual OS X machine that I can run on a non-network connected computer running VMWare, will it?
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Network storage != Virtual Machine
Authored by: codebilly on Oct 09, '08 10:02:54AM
Virtual Desktop != Virtual Machine? Hey .. if you like all of that configuration and administration .. go for it. Personally, I like this one:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DTKoEHXUiZA

Try that with active directory and network shares. ;)

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Network storage != Virtual Machine
Authored by: neill on Oct 09, '08 12:56:18PM

I agree . . .I checked out their site and even created an account so I could get to a few more details about how it works. You create a new user on the Mac and enable Fast User switching . . . then using your admin account you "cloudify" the new user. My guess (although I could not find any real technical details) is that the process is no more than just a local user on your Mac with a networked home directory. No provision for network user accounts shared between machines or anything like that. The download of the appliance is only 551 Megs . . . so it is clearly *not* a virtualized Leopard session at all . . . at least that's what it looks like to me..



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