Hi, I'm going to give you some quick context:
Last week I went to a "Startup Weekend" Event in Guadalajara, Jalisco, (My county is Mexico) and I live in Mexico City. Usually I use Desktop machines, in fact, I ONLY own one computer and it's a Desktop (F15 KDE 64 Bits BTW)
And it has never gave me problems before, I can pacefully work at home, at work, at school with desktop computers as many things I use are on the cloud and all the machines I use in my diary life have mostly the same setup (Software, Configs and other things, such as Fedore as the primary O.S. and Windows VM's inside Vbox).
BUT for this event I had to ask for a borrowed laptop as I don't have one. The thing is I usually work in Fedora Linux and in Windows VM inside of Fedora Linux Because of Dreamweaver CS5, that is my main web development production app, also I use Windows VM's to check's IE compatibility, and some Corel and Ulead Programs.
As a Matter of fact, I CAN'T work in a PC where I only have Windows or where I only have Linux, (or with dual-boot) I'm used to use both O.S. at the same time, complementing one with the other, Linux as the MAIN O.S and Windows in a VM...
The laptop I got only had F14 ans it wasn't powerful enough to create a VM, Wine won't run Dreamweaver CS5 or most of the windows tools I need to work correctly and I felt "inproductive" in some way at the event.
MY QUESTION IS:
As maybe I can't run a VM in all the computers that I might have access to and because Wine Can't Emulate some programs correctly, I Know the solution is using the cloud to carry my apps with me, I was wondering if there is a Free Service like XenApp:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mpdUDUVMNKM
(Better if it's opensource) to run my Windows apps from the server in my Linux Machines or if I can mount a server with free/opensource technologies that give me that option.
I don't intend for a enterprise enviroment, something personal where I can virtualize at much 5 apps for my personal use in the cloud...
is it possible? What should I use?
Thanks!
On Sun, Jul 03, 2011 at 03:25:39 -0500, Manuel Escudero Jmlevick@gmail.com wrote:
As maybe I can't run a VM in all the computers that I might have access to and because Wine Can't Emulate some programs correctly, I Know the solution is using the cloud to carry my apps with me, I was wondering if there is a Free Service
(Better if it's opensource) to run my Windows apps from the server in my Linux Machines or if I can mount a server with free/opensource technologies that give me that option.
is it possible? What should I use?
Have you taken a look at openshift (https://openshift.redhat.com/app/)?
On 3 July 2011 13:57, Bruno Wolff III bruno@wolff.to wrote:
On Sun, Jul 03, 2011 at 03:25:39 -0500, Manuel Escudero Jmlevick@gmail.com wrote:
As maybe I can't run a VM in all the computers that I might have access to and because Wine Can't Emulate some programs correctly, I Know the solution is using the cloud to carry my apps with me, I was wondering if there is a Free Service
(Better if it's opensource) to run my Windows apps from the server in my Linux Machines or if I can mount a server with free/opensource technologies that give me that option.
is it possible? What should I use?
Have you taken a look at openshift (https://openshift.redhat.com/app/)?
How exactly does that help? Running Windows is not one of the features of Red Hat's PaaS offering.
To answer the OP's question, there is unlikely to be a free service that allows you to run Windows Apps in the Cloud, because they would have to pay Microsoft for the Windows licencing fees.
There are many companies that will rent/sell you a Windows virtual machine, to which you could connect via Remote Desktop from Linux (tsclient/rdesktop will do it) and you could install your applications there - but checking my own employer's prices, it looks like that would cost you about $60 per month - mostly because they don't offer Windows 7 or XP - only Server 2008.
Of course you could reduce that cost by not running it permanently (as they are usually billed hourly for the time the machine is running), but it's still going to cost money.
2011/7/3 Sam Sharpe lists.redhat@samsharpe.net
On 3 July 2011 13:57, Bruno Wolff III bruno@wolff.to wrote:
On Sun, Jul 03, 2011 at 03:25:39 -0500, Manuel Escudero Jmlevick@gmail.com wrote:
As maybe I can't run a VM in all the computers that I might have access
to
and because Wine Can't Emulate some programs correctly, I Know the
solution
is using the cloud to carry my apps with me, I was wondering if there is
a
Free Service
(Better if it's opensource) to run my Windows apps from the server in my Linux Machines or if I can mount a server with free/opensource technologies that give me that option.
is it possible? What should I use?
Have you taken a look at openshift (https://openshift.redhat.com/app/)?
How exactly does that help? Running Windows is not one of the features of Red Hat's PaaS offering.
To answer the OP's question, there is unlikely to be a free service that allows you to run Windows Apps in the Cloud, because they would have to pay Microsoft for the Windows licencing fees.
There are many companies that will rent/sell you a Windows virtual machine, to which you could connect via Remote Desktop from Linux (tsclient/rdesktop will do it) and you could install your applications there - but checking my own employer's prices, it looks like that would cost you about $60 per month - mostly because they don't offer Windows 7 or XP - only Server 2008.
Of course you could reduce that cost by not running it permanently (as they are usually billed hourly for the time the machine is running), but it's still going to cost money.
-- Sam
Ok, does someone know how can I mount a server for my propouse in order to don't pay to a company and manage it myself?
Otherwhise I'll have to see how to pay for the service, I'm really interested in that.
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Bruno Wolff III -
Manuel Escudero -
Sam Sharpe