Is it possible to organize a designer's virtual workplace with the connection of local peripherals?

Question

Virtualization

I am analyzing the possibility of renting a cloud workplace for a designer. It is planned to launch graphics programs such as Photoshop and Corel Draw (that is, computing power and, possibly, a GPU are needed). Number of users - usually one, ideally up to three. I would also like to connect USB devices, but I'm not sure if this is possible.

Cloud service providers offer "virtual server" and "remote workstation" services, although the difference between these services at each individual provider is blurred and not completely clear. Articles on the Internet about organizing remote work usually describe places for developers or accountants.

I would like some advice on how to solve this problem. Is it possible to connect local USB devices to a remote server? Which service is better to use, "virtual server" or "jobs"?

Answer 1

the best option is a local PC
Or then an accredited cloud from Adobe, but I feel it will cost a lot
Usually usb is forwarded automatically, depending on which devices

Answer 2

1) Since when the designer rarely changes the full frame of the image, you can transfer not the entire screenshot, but only the changes. So there is software that transmits the picture honestly, "pixel by pixel" on the market.
2) USB forwarding - which device do you want to forward? Flash drive? To do this, there are cloud remote access clients, forwarding a flash drive through the USB protocol = risking all the contents of the flash drive and the flash drive itself. Again, cloud clients are good at caching/compressing data (and pumping it at the full available link speed), but the USB protocol does not provide such luxury.

Answer 3

It all depends on how remote you need such a place and on whose architecture:
Online:
1. As already mentioned above, Adobe solutions are available through Creative Cloud.
2. Through virtual machines with a desktop stream. There are a lot of nuances on whose architecture it is virtualized, what tariff plans, what hypervisor ... I won’t even dare to review further.
On your hardware:
3. What would take off, if we talk about hardware on Intel, it is necessary that both the CPU and the mother support and these options are enabled / activated in BIOS as: VT-d, VT-x (often appears in BIOS as Intel virtualization technology, in addition to the VT-d virtualization support point), the mother must support IOMMU technology. Solutions are used only on Linux|Unix - KVM, Xen, ESXi
Mobile GTX1660ti Max-Q forwarding video on laptop:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6pzdkXqI4sU
GTX1070 forwarding video on desktop:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wjlmWHJiEug
My articles on this topic (for a laptop and for a PC):
https://habr.com/ru/post/575654/
https://habr.com/ru/post/437598/
pluses - within the radius of the cable from the VC to the display no delays. If you still need to stream the desktop over the network, then there is a way out. This is streaming again - RDP, some kind of looking Glass, which already includes a hypervisor, etc.
in the case of a virtual machine and VC forwarding to a VM, there is no difference with real hardware, with the exception of the settings of the hardware itself. Without VK, as I understand it, you are not interested in using a remote desktop ...
Forwarding local USB to KVM, Xen, ESXi is fundamentally possible, in the case of RDP, it may not be as simple as when working in someone else's rented virtual machine.
As for games, the situation is much better here, the same Steam, GeforceNow, in principle, are playable. You can even play CyberPunk 2077 on a netbook, provided that the CPU can digest the video stream.