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If you are going to use multimedia capabilities , i think Xen Desktop is better
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If you are going to use multimedia capabilities , i think Xen Desktop is better

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Yes Xen Desktop is good becouse in thet free licnse you had free use of they special multimedia plugin 3D support and HD video streaming from virtual. Other good thing is that you have free iphone, iPad and other platform clients :)
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Yes Xen Desktop is good becouse in thet free licnse you had free use of they special multimedia plugin 3D support and HD video streaming from virtual. Other good thing is that you have free iphone, iPad and other platform clients :)

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Hello, Is anyone aware of any open source solution that will give me the ability to virtualise a limited number of desktop workstations? At present I can use ubuntu on old pc's and cut out all elements on boot apart from the RDP facility to connect to my microsoft terminal server. Is there a better way of doing it when taking into account my budget which is close to £0. One problem with the RDP setup is multimedia capabilities to these workstations, It's next to useless at present but I can live with that, I'm looking for an alternative to the existing setup.<br />
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Regards, Aelara
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Hello, Is anyone aware of any open source solution that will give me the ability to virtualise a limited number of desktop workstations? At present I can use ubuntu on old pc's and cut out all elements on boot apart from the RDP facility to connect to my microsoft terminal server. Is there a better way of doing it when taking into account my budget which is close to £0. One problem with the RDP setup is multimedia capabilities to these workstations, It's next to useless at present but I can live with that, I'm looking for an alternative to the existing setup.

Regards, Aelara

Desktop Workstation Virtualisation

Virtualization is the act of creating a virtual (rather than actual) version of something, including (but not limited to) a virtual computer hardware platform, operating system (OS), storage device, or computer network resources. Virtualization is usually the creation of a system that executes separate from the underlying hardware resources, or the creation of an entire desktop for systems located elsewhere, similar to thin clients.

Virtualization

Windows Server 2008 and Windows Server 2008 R2, based on the Microsoft Vista codebase, is the last 32-bit server operating system released by Microsoft. It has a number of versions, including including Foundation, Standard, Enterprise, Datacenter, Web, HPC Server, Itanium and Storage; new features included server core installation and Hyper-V.

Windows Server 2008

VMware, a software company founded in 1998,  was one of the first commercially successful companies to offer x86 virtualization. The storage company EMC purchased VMware in 1994. Dell Technologies acquired EMC in 2016. VMware’s parent company is now Dell Technologies.

VMware has many software products that run on desktops, Microsoft Windows, Linux, and macOS, which allows the virtualizing of the x86 architecture.  Its enterprise software hypervisor for servers, VMware vSphere Hypervisor (ESXi), is a bare-metal hypervisor that runs directly on the server hardware and does not require an additional underlying operating system.