Some interesting pieces of information are starting to trickle out about Citrix’s upcoming release of Feature pack 2 for XenApp.

Harry Labana is writing about a new feature being developed for this release known as “VM hosted apps”. Seamless applications beyond Terminal Services, does it help?

What this means is that Citrix is going to be giving you the ability to publish applications which are actually being delivered from a windows xp/vista/7 hosted virtual machine, and not from a server 2003/2008 .

What does this gain you.  For instance you have an application that does NOT work on server 200x, or will not legally be able to be delivered on server 2003, or supported.  You now have a way of delivering the application and having all the same advantages you have when using XenApp,  Centralized, secured, seamless, dynamic.

I think this is awesome. This is a serious competitive advantage that addresses a real pain point in server based application delivery.

Where it is going to get cloudy/confusing is the use case for full blown desktop virtualization (XenDesktop), and the use case for vm hosted APPs.  Is this going to start to eat into the licensing sales for XenDesktop?

I am super excited to get this in and start testing…..

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The great Leo Laporte hosted Ian Pratt from Xen to discuss the XenHypervisor this week. Listen to it below

Xen Podcast

This is awesome.  Thanks to Steve Greenburg for tweeting it.  This was a moderated debate between Simon Crosby of Citrix and Scott Drummonds of Vmware around Hypervisor performance.
Watch the video here

For anyone following these 2 organizations you are well aware that they often trade jabs on their blogs.  This was just great to watch.  Simon is such a great debater, and speaker.

As a frequent user and implementer of XenServer I was thrilled to see some supporting documentation, and discussion around Hypervisor performance.

Kudos to Simon for keeping up the debate. Scott appeared pretty uncomfortable.