It is summer after all….
Thanks to the XenApp Blog for the Scripts

In all seriousness I find it hilarious after 15 years in this industry that we are still doing this.  Take a PC and all it’s bloatedness and strip it down to the bare minimum software needed to run the XenApp WI and Web client.  Lock it down and you have yourself a nice windows based Kiosk.

Why windows you say? Well all of the enhancements to the XenApp client are going to go against the Win32 client to take advantage of the local hardware.

I could see great use of this in libraries, Schools etc where there is a fair amount of commodity hardware, and a server based application/desktop delivery initiative on going.

While you could do something similar with the XenDesktop Embedded Receiver Client this is much more flexible.

Simon Crosby discusses the economics behind making XenServer Free! Enlightening as always.

It is just way to fun listening to him talk.

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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