As we all know Citrix are working on an offline client side hypervisor, and it is rumoured that this will make an appearance at Synergy next week.
Simon Crosby, CTO of Datacenter & Cloud division, has announced this week the following information about XenClient:
…Now that XenClient "Stewie" is getting ready for exposure to a larger set of users, the power management is excellent – there is some secret sauce at work that I can’t disclose yet – and the only limitation for multi-VM use is the boot time. There are still quite a few user experience quirks such as limited multi-monitor support and knowing how to get printing to work, but the system is very usable. My initial user experience issues, such as scheduler interaction that messed up Microsoft OCS and Skype performance, and having to figure out how to get my 3G USB device supported and manually insert the driver, have mostly been addressed. Support for sleep states, power management, and feedback on usability have helped enormously. Along the way, we have learned painfully just how hard a job it is to build a client-side type 1 hypervisor, and reminded that we still have a way to go.
So, I guess we will just have to wait to see what Synergy brings about next week for the public.