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moka5 LivePC

Wednesday, 09 August 2006 by Michel Roth

Just came across this at Bobkous' weblog: moka5 LivePC. Very interesting! moka5 pioneered the concept of LivePCs, originally known as virtual appliances, at Stanford, combining the full advantages of both thin-clients and PC computing. The advantages of our LivePC technology include:

� Mobility (take your PC with you)
� Security (spyware vanishes with reboot)
� Easy management (always up to date, automatically)

LivePCs allow a live, actively managed computer configuration to be shared across many machines distributed all over the world. LivePC is a software solution about provisioning virtual machines to a VMware Player runtime engine. The LivePC Player connects to a library with prepped virtual machines that are usable in VMware Player. It is a kind of VMware ACE, but without the Windows host requirement and a central management platform.

The Windows version installs LivePC Player ona Windows platform. The bare metal version installs a stripped Linux with VMware Player included. The last one can be seen as a LivePC appliance. The LivePC Player can be used for:

� connect the the moka5 library
� create new LivePC�s
� import existing VMware virtual machines

LivePC�s can be published to the moka5 library or even to your own webserver. Updates are automatically merged in the local cache, your the user always has the latest version.

Read more here.