Moka5 Invite!
After opening my inbox, I got a sweet little suprise from the people over at moka5
Apparently I'm one of the "the über virbu" and found worthy of an invite.
I did get a glimpse at what they are offering though. Moka5 looks to be offering something along the lines of the VMWare Appliances, but they have created a VMWare Player addon that lets you centrally manage and share what Moka5 call LivePC's. I haven't been able to test it properly yet since it requires VMWare Player and I only have VMWare Server installed.
So far the sites LivePC library consists of 7 setups, some made by the Moka5 administrator but some are also contributed by other beta testers.
Moka5 has created a service that turns standalone VMWare VMs into centrally manageable and updatable VMs through their web service and they also provide detailed instructions on how convert an exiting VMWare VM into a moka5 LivePC (this is the way they are created). I'm sure this will be a great service and that a lot of VMWare appliances and pre-configured desktop VMs will be converted and published on their site.
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Published August 8, 2006 01:23
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August 8, 2006 1:52am
Does this mean I can access Virtual machines running on another box through a web session? Something along the lines of Citrix or Terminal services? I currently have a VM set up at home that I can Remote Desktop into from anywhere, but a more secure (https) web session would be preferred.
I signed up for the beta and am waiting to get some information. Seems like it could be a pretty neat product.
August 8, 2006 7:59pm
I don’t believe their setup runs the VMs centrally and then you can connect to it from everywhere. What kind of HW setup would that require? :-)
They do provide a way of distributing VMs and updates to them from a web interface, but you still need to download the VM to your client machine and run it from there.
If you want something more secure than pure encrypted RDP connections, I would look into using SSL Explorer (inside a VM works fine) to provide “clientless” SSL based VPN connectivity.