I have been wondering for some time what the purpose of a client HyperVisor is.  I was having a very hard time understanding how this differentiated from something like Vmware Workstation which is a software Hypervisor.

I stumbled across an article by Martin Ingram from Appsense over at “Virtual Stratgey Magazine”. Virtual-Strategy Article

I know that Citrix is working on their client side Hyervisor as well Client Hypervisor is not Just Xen on a laptop.

Between these 2 articles I now understand what the goal of client Hypervisors is.  It appears it really is trying to solve 2 problems. The first problem is Graphics or processor intense applications running as “Virtual Machines”, and the second one being “Offline VDI”. With the Hypervisor embedded into the hardware it extends the ability to bring the virtualization down to the local machine, and do some form of synchronization back to the master “Hosted” hypervisor.

So what exactly does this buy us? In my opinion if you run the client hypervisor and run the “Guest” on top of this with an automated check in, check out mechanism you get the features of hosted desktops (Security, Change Management, centralized backup and recovery, One to Many image management, portability) while also retaining the Offline ability and utilizing the local processing and computing power of devices.

I am actually excited to see this segment grow.  I think having local Hypervisors offer a dramatic shift in computing.  This why it is so exciting to see Intel/Citrix collaborating on this.
Intel & Citrix jointly developing client Hypervisor

Read about the joint Intel/Citrix development Here
What are your thoughts on this?

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