Citrix at VMworld Europe had their Project Independence on demonstration for all to see, and recently there has been some murmurs about the architecture. The code is currently in alpha release so is naturally going to go through many iterations to ensure adoption upon general release.
The Citrix client hypervisor is a Xen-based hypervisor and will have primary / parent partition that will boot first and will be used to access the hardware. Dual boot between primary OS with hypervisor and primary OS without hypervisor is possible. Right now only Windows XP, Vista and Windows 7 are supported in the primary partition.
After the primary partition is loaded, the other virtual machines can be managed through a web interface in the primary partition. The user will be given the option to check out a VM to take it offline.
There is the ability to publish an application from a Virtual Machine into the primary session, this means an application can run in a background VM but can be executed in the primary VM, Citrix are using the ICA technology to make this available.
Anyway it looks interesting, we will have to see how the parent partition handles resource consumption as it is constantly running.
No doubt Synergy will be the big splash for this release, and if you are from the UK and not able to make Synergy but want to keep up to date with the releases we will be presenting our information on all things Citrix at our Synergy update event in Chalfont, click here to register.
The Citrix client hypervisor is a Xen-based hypervisor and will have primary / parent partition that will boot first and will be used to access the hardware. Dual boot between primary OS with hypervisor and primary OS without hypervisor is possible. Right now only Windows XP, Vista and Windows 7 are supported in the primary partition.
After the primary partition is loaded, the other virtual machines can be managed through a web interface in the primary partition. The user will be given the option to check out a VM to take it offline.
There is the ability to publish an application from a Virtual Machine into the primary session, this means an application can run in a background VM but can be executed in the primary VM, Citrix are using the ICA technology to make this available.
Anyway it looks interesting, we will have to see how the parent partition handles resource consumption as it is constantly running.
No doubt Synergy will be the big splash for this release, and if you are from the UK and not able to make Synergy but want to keep up to date with the releases we will be presenting our information on all things Citrix at our Synergy update event in Chalfont, click here to register.