virtual machines

[Fernando Duran]

Citrix bought Xensource yesterday btw
http://www.xensource.com/about/Pages/CitrixAcquisition.aspx

Fernando

--- John Van Ostrand <john-Da48MpWaEp0CzWx7n4ubxQ at public.gmane.org> wrote:

> 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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