Host on nix with boot guest (win) in seamless mode

Question

linux

Hello, dear, it is interesting to know how to organize the following idea: there is a fast-growing office, the number of computers and employees is growing, and of course everyone will have problems. Having read various information, I came to the idea to use on all computers a light distr niks system with a bootable, for example, xp'hoy for users. (What is convenient, as far as I understand, is that you can store a ready-made image of a virtual system with pre-installed software and not worry about firewood).
And so, tried business on xen the center, on a virtualbox. (Young, I am learning, I repent).
I would like a link to a really good guide on such a case. Or contacts of the guru, because there are moments that do not work out:
-choose a really suitable distro for the host system (now, respectively, I tried Kentos, Fribsd and Ubuntu), I would like to do it without gui to free up PC resources as much as possible.
- make the host system invisible to the user. (The problem, for example, in boxing, when we reboot, we fall into the host system, the user has a nervous breakdown) - a
means of monitoring this entire economy.
Why am I asking this here:
-infa in all the guides I found, the kids are outdated (2010-11). I am sure that there is already something cooler and more convenient than it was.
-the most adequate community about which I saw.

Answer 1

First, there is no reason to use XP on desktops in 2014. If there are no other options in this office, it is easier to quit it.
If you have a lot of junk there instead of computers, then install a terminal server and make thin clients. If only because a bunch of rubbish is unlikely to be capable of hardware virtualization, without which your scheme will be extremely sad to work.
If the hardware is decent, then Windows 7-8 is your choice. No virtual machines. There are no special problems with the drivers, but the software can be installed through AD.
But if it’s really hot to virtualize, then:
To make the host almost invisible, you can use the following hack: when the host starts, we automatically raise the X session, in which the VIrtualBox virtual machine is launched to full screen via xinitrc (VirtualBox --startvm VM_name --fullscreen), and the next line is halt. If the virtual machine is turned off for some reason, the computer will also turn off. The solution is certainly strange, but better than nothing.
What to put on the host in this situation does not matter at all.
It won't work without a GUI, because the only option I see is forwarding a video card to the guest system, which requires a discrete video card and hardware that supports such tricks.
Of the monitoring tools, I personally prefer zabbix.

Answer 2

Having read various information, I came to the idea to use on all computers a light distr niks system with a bootable, for example, xp'hoy for users. (What is convenient, as far as I understand, is that you can store a ready-made image of a virtual system with pre-installed software and not worry about firewood).

Sounds like you need XenClient .
Overview of the old version .
Testing an old version .
History of development (in the news).