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VDI on Chromebooks using 3D apps

I am attempting to use Minecraft on a virtual desktop. I can do it to a PC Laptop uising VMware View 6.1, an NVidia K1 Grid card and a wireless connection. I can do this because I can enable relative Mouse which seems to provide better control and everything is happy. I am trying to get it working using the Chromebook client from VMware. The graphics and such appears good but it is impossible to control. VMware has told me relative mouse is not available in the Chromebook Client and has given no indication of if it could be. So has anyone had any type of success with any Virtual 3D gaming to a Chromebook on any other platforms, given the shared 3D graphics cards or am I ahead of technology on this one? For those that are curious as to why I want to do this, we are a school district using MinecraftEdu and we are going 1 to 1 with technology issuing our middle schoolers Chromebooks. This would allow the Minecraft lab to be run on their own devices anywhere in the schools.

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Andrew Hancock (VMware vExpert PRO / EE Fellow/British Beekeeper)

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Thank you for commenting, Andrew. I will look into those cards. It is probably VERY much in VMWare's interest to look at Chromebooks as a market. In education they have found quite a niche as they are cheap student devices and as we can run windows apps we are looking at them as staff devices as well. The concept of virtual Labs accessible from a students device is very appealing but this first go was a bit of a failure due to the controls in the client. A very sad day for us that were pushing the concept.

Do you feel our issues are hardware horse power or the limitations of the ChromeOS?

I thought it was the software side of things (the View Chrome Client and possible limits of the OS to support it) as the graphics while standing still seemed OK. It was loss of control when moving that killed me (I saw that as the relative move issue).

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Thanks again Andrew. I will close this later today and award solution(s).

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Thanks Andrew. You answered my question to the best it can be.