How to make Ubuntu VM available to multiple users in the cloud?

befaro

3/28/24, 11:19 AM

I have a design technical question.

Let me describe the use case first:

I have 20 students. My idea is that they all can run a full Ubuntu Desktop from within their web browser. Everyone should have their own user account (preferable connected to a running LDAP server).

So I kind of want to have a small self-hosted AWS EC2.

That's the plan. The question is how to achieve that? I guess there are multiple solutions to that problem.

I do have a running Ubuntu server with enough capacity to run 20 Ubuntu instances (if necessary).

My current setup is running Docker and I deployed a QEMU/KVM container. This container is running one Ubuntu 22.04 Desktop environment with a VNC server.

This way I am able to connect to this one Ubuntu 22.04 session from a web browser and this is working as expected for my needs.

The problem is now: Every student connecting with a VNC client does not need to login to a user account, but everyone can work in parallel on the same session.

I could now deploy multiple Ubuntu sessions and share a different VNC connection to every student. But that seems for me not to be the most beautiful way to do it. I would prefer that the user needs to login after connecting to the VNC.

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ubuntu

vnc

amazon-ec2

qemu

docker

batistuta09

3/28/24, 4:03 PM

Multisession VNC may help. Check here how to configure - https://samarth-robo.github.io/blog/2020/09/28/vnc_multiuser.html

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