Hi, I am helping build an OS lab for our "poor" faculty. We have only 1-2 high-end servers, and about 25-30 low-end PCs (256-384M RAM, 1.6 GHz CPU). The OS lab is mainly for the OS Practicum course which is based on Minix. We want Minix to run on a virtual machine, probably Qemu, which itself runs on a GNU/Linux host OS. We choose Slitaz for its lightweight and speed. But at the same time, we don't want repeat installing-configuring every PC. So the last possible solution is booting through network from a server. Then my question is:
Is it possible to configure a Slitaz server so that as many (as 30) client PCs boot from the server at the same time and run Qemu and then Minix? I have no experience of setting up a server. An even more silly question, can these client PCs run X programs at the meantime?
Hmm, the doc is too terse. Particularly I don't know what to do at the "configuration bootfile option" step. What to configure, which options are available, the format, etc. Anyone to further enlighten me?