Yes, I think rounding off Virtuozzo features would be necessary for a complete/manageable solution. One piece is there already though- VZ does have a built in application virtualization solution which lets you automatically assign available applications to virtual machines. However, you are still missing all the nice brokering, client device support, etc that you rightly pointed out below Steve Greenberg Thin Client Computing 34522 N. Scottsdale Rd D8453 Scottsdale, AZ 85266 (602) 432-8649 www.thinclient.net steveg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx _____ From: thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Rick Mack Sent: Monday, March 31, 2008 10:19 PM To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [THIN] Re: Desktop Hi Mads, NO argument, Virtuozzo is brilliant from a scalability and efficiency viewpoint, particularly when compared to using hypervisors. Because you're doing operating system partitioning instead of hosting separate instances of an operating system, it's nearly as scalable as terminal services. I was a fan of Virtuozzo years before SWsoft became Parallels. Nevertheless, it's more a virtualization platform than a VDI product because it's missing a lot of the little bits that round out a complete solution VDI solution. Stuff like published applications, UPD USB redirection, multi-media support etc. If you add Provision Network's VAS, which links into Virtuozzo, then you have a real VDI solution ;-) regards, Rick -- Ulrich Mack Quest Software Provision Networks Division On 3/31/08, Mads Sørensen <gasmadske@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: Now we are talking VDI products, I think one of the best VDI products out there right now is "Parallels Virtuozzo 4.0", The beauty is that it uses the container technology on a Windows Server 2003 and with almost no overhead. So with a Windows Server 2003 Datacenter license and the XP Theme service, you can start as many desktops as you want or twice as many as you could with some other VDI software on one server :-). It has a really good management interface and I could go on. But as Rick also writes it may not be the place to discuss this.. so I'll stop her.. but it's really worth taking a look at. /Mads