Virtual Distro Dispatcher: A Costless Distributed Virtual Environment from Trashware

Obsolete hardware can be effectively reused through intelligent software optimization, which is possible only when source code is available. Virtual Distro Dispatcher (VDD) is a system that produces virtual machines on a central server and projects them on a number of costless physical terminals. VDD is the result of an extreme software optimisation based on virtualization and terminal servers. VDD creates and projects Linux distros that are completely customizable and different from each other. They are virtual desktop machines that can be used for testing or developing and are completely controllable directly from each terminal. Memory consumption has been strongly reduced without sacrificing performances. Test results are encouraging to proceed with the research towards clustering. © Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2007.