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I like the concept. The mockup to which you linked is a bit confusing. I think a box explaining that it is read only would be nice. (it actually seems more complex than that, I had an entire virtual machine to play with but it reset the hdd image on reboot.

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Thanks for your feedback. Actually, the explanation is below the menu. It wasn't clear enough I guess? This is a static HTML prototype.

There is only one dynamic thing: the noVNC console that connects to a real VM. The VM doesn't have any network or storage - it's just an Arch Linux LiveCD. A cronjob restarts it every 30 minutes to ensure it's usable - some people have bad habits to execute commands that break the OS. ;)

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