An OPVS machine used to carry one desk for one team. From v1.2.0 it can carry several, and it can host a desk belonging to another OPVS customer if its owner switches that on. Each desk is isolated from the others by the operating system.
What's new in v1.2.0
- Every desk runs as its own user. Two desks on one machine used to share one operating system account, so the file permissions between them protected nothing. Each desk now gets its own account and a private home, and cannot read another desk's stored credentials.
- One machine, several desks. A machine that carried a single desk can now carry several, each with its own settings, its own port and its own service. Adding the second one needs no new install command and no new token.
- You decide who may share your machine. Hosting another customer's desk is off on every existing machine, and only the machine's owner can turn it on. Switching it off again stops the next placement and leaves a desk already running in place.
- The setup command stops instead of overwriting. Running the installer again on a machine that already has a working desk used to replace it. It now refuses, names what it found, and leaves the existing desk alone.
A team that needed one server per brand can put those brands on one machine.
Machines, desks and the sharing setting are documented at https://opvs.ai/docs/opvs/employees/workstations.