there are a few options to enable swap in ltsp. (this assumes an ltsp dir of /opt/ltsp, and achitecture of i386, adjust to your configuration if necessary) using local swap partitions from the hard disk: add to /opt/ltsp/i386/etc/lts.conf: [Default] USE_LOCAL_SWAP=Y network swap using NBD: touch /opt/ltsp/i386/etc/nbd-client in /opt/ltsp/i386/etc/lts.conf: [Default] NBD_SWAP=Y apt-get install nbd-server update-inetd --group LTSP --add "9210 stream tcp nowait nobody /usr/sbin/tcpd /usr/sbin/nbdswapd" encrypting swap space: in /opt/ltsp/i386/etc/lts.conf: ENCRYPT_SWAP=Y and install the cryptsetup package: chroot /opt/ltsp/i386 apt-get install cryptsetup alternately, you can configure nbd-server the hard way: apt-get install nbd-server in /etc/nbd-server: NBD_PORT[0]=9210 NBD_FILE[0]=/opt/ltsp/swap/swapfile.%s NBD_SERVER_OPTS[0]="" invoke-rc.d nbd-server start create a file for each possible ip address that will attempt to connect to the server: # size in megabytes size=100 your_ip_addresses="10.0.2.2 10.0.2.3 10.0.2.4 ..." mkdir -p /opt/ltsp/swap/ for a in $your_ip_addresse ; do dd if=/dev/zero of=/opt/ltsp/swap/swapfile.$a bs=1024k count=$size done