[THIN] Re: Desktop

  • From: "Mads Sørensen" <thinmails@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Wed, 2 Apr 2008 17:36:25 +0200

By the way Rich.. There are USB Redirection support in RDP6.0.

/Mads


2008/4/1, Rick Mack <ulrich.mack@xxxxxxxxx>:
>
> 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
> >
> >
>

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