At the Atlantic Eco Expo

September 18th and 19th I participated in the Atlantic Eco Expo to show off my new desktop virtualization in a box prototype. It was great to actually show this to people who had never heard of anything like this before (which was pretty much everyone). People really seemed to like the idea.


I introduced a lot of people to desktop virtualization. I described how this one tiny machine built with a few hundred dollars worth of computer parts could run dozens of thinclient computers using virtualization and the Linux terminal server project.


All of the computers I used in the demo were old laptops that my friends had abandoned. They ranged from 3 to 5 years old and all ran great the whole time.

This message attracted a lot of people to the booth. This machine was connected to a Windows 7 virtual machine. :)

Besides resurrecting old computers, what else can this system do? Here is a video posted by Adam Hartling (@XenosNS on twitter and http://acoss.wordpress.com/ for his blog). Enjoy.

This system is very easy to deploy and manage and creates a great user experience. I will be posting more video of this system over the next few days.