How to determine the login duration of current user?

[Richard Clark]

VMware's version of this is VDI - it's pretty good, but it's not cheap -
it needs a special kind of ESX license so you can't run those desktops
on your existing servers, they need to be on dedicated ESX/VDI servers.

On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 02:33:11PM -0700, Kevin Keane wrote:
> Do these virtual machines have to run 24/7? If not, you could automatically shut them down at 2 AM - either from your hypervisor, or with the shutdown.exe command.
> 
> When you do that, you could leave the VMs simply sitting there taking up disk space, or you can check the file date of the .VMDK file for that VM.
> 
> By the way, some vendors have yet another solution that might work for you. Has nothing to do with Nagios. You can auto-create virtual machines as needed. Basically, you just create one template XP VM image. Only when a user logs on, this template is cloned. When the user logs off, the clone is destroyed. The next time the same user logs on, he gets a completely fresh virgin copy of XP.
> 
> Citrix has something like this, and I believe Microsoft also is working on offering something similar. I'm sure VMWare does, too, but I haven't heard anything specific about it. 
> 
-- 
Richard Clark
richard at fohnet.co.uk
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