I agree with Reuven
In Virtualization is the Future Reuven Cohen notes:
"Personally I find desktop virtualization another way to force Windows licenses down our throats. I'd rather see a shift away from desktop computing altogether."
Pretty straight to the point .. guess Bart also likes this approach :)
Comments
#1 Kris Buytaert : Partly
With the tools you list you only get acces to a screen , a screen on a machine you share with someone else .. It's like they reinvented X .
But you don't really get a full machine to play with don't you, Desktop Virtualisation combines having access to a remote screen with having access to your own virtual box.
But you are right .. nothing new there :)
PS. Offcourse they go yadda yadda but but over little facts such as plugging in a usb sick in your local terminal window and seeing it appear in the remote virtual machine ad a disk etc.
#2 Kris Buytaert : Henry Spencer
is right
#3 Serge van Ginderachter : Desktop virtualisation
I'm not even sure what desktop virtualisationis all about. Citrix, Nomachine, Windows terminal server. It's good technology so far, but nothing new. I've been calling that "server based computing" for ages now. What's changing since this virtualisation tag?