VLIZEDLAB

VlizedLab is an open source solution for running and maintaining PC labs in schools and educational institutions. It's philosophy is simple: Only a very slim base system runs directly on the hardware of the PCs in the lab (we call them Vlizedlab Clients). This base system is capable of starting any kind of (virtual) PCs in a virtualization environment. Beside that, it copes with maintaining and distributing the virtual PCs, but nothing more. The virtual PCs can run just any operating system (WindowsX, any kind of Linux, ...) with about any software. These machines are "read only", such that any changes made by students are reset automatically after the lecture... However we soon recognized, that the computing ressources of our lab were soon exhausted, because basically still only one group of students could work in one lab at the same time. We also recognized, that our students were mostly very well capable of installing Virtualbox and download and run our teaching machines. What was..