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How difficult/feasible to do a desktop virtualization of my home PC?

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superboyac:
Thanks Stoic. I'm going to try it out.  I've used the .rdp file here at work, so I'll try that also.  I'll be blown away if the responsiveness is anywhere decent.  I'm already impressed that you connect to multiple computers and are able to work productively.

I'll also take a look at VNC, wraith, thanks.

4wd:
You can patch both Vista HP and 7 HP to allow RDP Host to work:

Vista HP
Windows 7 HP

I've done it to my install of W7HP x64 and it works fine, (apart from sound but not a problem for me).  Haven't tried Vista because I don't have it.

All the usual warnings apply: You screw it up, it's your fault.

superboyac:
I have a question:
How come ALL corporate software companies can't clearly explain what their product does exactly?  I'm no dummy, but it takes me way too long to figure out what the hell is going on.  I see it all the time with corporate software.  I see it with this virtualization stuff, I saw it with the business process modeling stuff, I see it with collaboration stuff.  It's out of control.  I am just about convinced that it is done on purpose.  Why?  I don't know.  I can't see how it helps financially or anything.

Take Citrix for example:  try figuring out in 10 minutes what the hell their product does.  Ok, I know it has something to do with remotely connecting to a computer.  Presentations server, Xenapp, Xendesktop?  Which one is for what?  THen they have videos that are just as unclear.  Then page after page of polished marketing links and brochures that really aren't clear what it does and what the different parts are and which ones you need to do a particular thing.  Sheesh.  Why can't they just say something like, "This is an application to remotely connect client pc's to a server, deploy applications remotely, etc."  there's nothing like that.  Man, what is everyone's problem?  What's the price?  Do they do this to make sure you call them and have a rep sent to you?  That's the only logical conclusion I can draw from it.

Stoic Joker:
Do they do this to make sure you call them and have a rep sent to you?  That's the only logical conclusion I can draw from it.-superboyac (August 19, 2010, 10:14 PM)
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techidave:
Citrix is an expensive item.  Our school looked briefly at it 5 or 6 years ago.  For our 100 machines or so it would have been $20,000 to implement it.  Why, supposedly so we could use our older, slower machines and save money cause we wouldn't need machines with hard drives and cd drives.

Give me a break, I still used the older, slower machines without a whole lot of problems.  But there are quite a few schools that do use it.  They must have deeper pockets than our school does!   :(


sorry, I didn't mean to hijack this thread.

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