virtual machines

[John Van Ostrand]

On Thu, 2007-08-16 at 09:58 -0400, William O'Higgins Witteman wrote:
> I need to use Citrix to log onto the network at work, but I don't like
> the idea of running Citrix's code on my nice clean machine with all
> open-source, community-vetted code.  So, I was thinking I'd set up a
> virtual machine and run the Citrix client in that.  Any recommendations
> for a easy-to-set-up virtual machine environment?  Thanks.

VMWare is by far the easiest, but it breaks the "open source, community
vetted code" rule. It is freely available but closed source.

Xen is the next option, but it can be a little tricky and depending on
your distro could be hard to implement. It as well is true
virtualization.

You could use a chroot'ed environment. It's not virtualization, but it
does segment the files.

Still all this is a little far to go in order to run a Citrix client.
Why not use rdesktop? Is there not an open source ICA client?
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