Virtual Machines in Your Browser
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Virtual Machines in Your Browser
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#2Hah, nifty!
For a hackathon this weekend we wrote a simple terminal and Ruby IDE using WebSockets. It's good stuff.
I'm pretty sure the sockets + thin-client with JS GUI will win the day.
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#3That's an interesting idea about running Windows 8 on the iPad. It might actually be great for devs looking to see how their Windows 8 apps would work on a real tablet.
For those of us behind strict corporate firewalls, it might be a good way to check email and other things on a remote computer.
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#4It's great, but I was thinking it was some weird way of using Native Client to create a real Virtual Machine in your browser, not just an interface. That would be really really cool.
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#5It's great, but I was thinking it was some weird way of using Native Client to create a real Virtual Machine in your browser, not just an interface. That would be really really cool.
There is jslinux, a linux vm running in js: http://bellard.org/jslinux/
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#6This is impressive work, but I don't see anything that can be done that can not already be done with VNC (other than sound), in terms of the use cases he lists. You still need that Virtual Machine which most people don't have.
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#7Wouldn't a more accurate title have been, "Remote access in your browser using HTML5"?
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#8You can do this pretty easily without leaving the realm of OSS via VirtualBox and one of a few frontends. Besides, this is more of a {RDP/VNC}WebSocket project.
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#9This is really cool.
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