F1nchy
February 23rd, 2012, 11:52 AM
I want to build a PC with Ubuntu running on it, but the sole purpose of it is to run VMWare View Client on it.
Ideally I'd like it to boot to a shell only and auto-logon to a standard username and auto-run the VM client in full screen, and lock down all other Ubuntu applications, key commands, etc, so the user only gets the VM login option and can then load up a VM session.
What are the options for doing this in Ubuntu and how do I go about it?
Is is possible to have Ubuntu boot to a shell and load VM from that, so they don't even get the Ubuntu screens?
And how do I lock down all priviledges for that user (a la Windows' group policy)?
I want to be able to set it up to be as low maintenance as possible, so that we can just install the image onto PCs and use them as a VM client without the users getting into the normal Ubuntu and panicking because they've never seen it before!
Many thanks in advance!
Ideally I'd like it to boot to a shell only and auto-logon to a standard username and auto-run the VM client in full screen, and lock down all other Ubuntu applications, key commands, etc, so the user only gets the VM login option and can then load up a VM session.
What are the options for doing this in Ubuntu and how do I go about it?
Is is possible to have Ubuntu boot to a shell and load VM from that, so they don't even get the Ubuntu screens?
And how do I lock down all priviledges for that user (a la Windows' group policy)?
I want to be able to set it up to be as low maintenance as possible, so that we can just install the image onto PCs and use them as a VM client without the users getting into the normal Ubuntu and panicking because they've never seen it before!
Many thanks in advance!