You can do a local install .. probably OSX not sure of Linux recognizes the virtual drivers xenclient emulated though. But the ethernet drivers appear to be generic ethernet driver as well as the virtual GPU.
Warning, use another HD for experimenting. My only gripe is that it wants to take the ENTIRE HD. Why they just didnt do via a partition kind bothers me. But oh well.
@jabberwolf I'm really more interested in the use of native drivers. For example I'm using a Inspiron 1440 that I bought a while back and I'm using Debian as a host. I run Vista through VirtualBox and it works, except I don't have the type of hardware support because I can't install native drivers. Virtualization is virtualization so unless this can help me use native drivers through a VM running host as Debian then I don't see a use for it.
As far as I know xenclient requires vpro tech, dualcore or more, and the intel HD chipset.
I know with 1 windows session, you can use the native GPU - it punches through the hypervisor to use it. Citrix is supposed to be working with nvidia and ATI and make them available to the HCL list. Its in their best interest to get that on their compatability list.
I think then debian might work now, but not sure, but only if it has Intel the 4500MHD set.
That was kinda the cool thing about xenclient and what I was looking for:
Something that could use the native GPU.
But xenclient isnt really easy to use like a copy down and up to any machine runing (like vmware player or VirtualBox). Its more for corporate use/security.
But as Xen is opensource, I'm really hoping that they make tools for easier individual consumer use.
@jabberwolf Well I suppose I'll keep an eye out. The inability of using native GPU drivers for guest machines is the only downside of VM's. I'm guessing that Citrix only makes this for commercial software.
I wonder if they have this for Linux hosts.
dellthinker 1 year ago
@dellthinker
You can do a local install .. probably OSX not sure of Linux recognizes the virtual drivers xenclient emulated though. But the ethernet drivers appear to be generic ethernet driver as well as the virtual GPU.
Warning, use another HD for experimenting. My only gripe is that it wants to take the ENTIRE HD. Why they just didnt do via a partition kind bothers me. But oh well.
jabberwolf 1 year ago
@jabberwolf I'm really more interested in the use of native drivers. For example I'm using a Inspiron 1440 that I bought a while back and I'm using Debian as a host. I run Vista through VirtualBox and it works, except I don't have the type of hardware support because I can't install native drivers. Virtualization is virtualization so unless this can help me use native drivers through a VM running host as Debian then I don't see a use for it.
dellthinker 1 year ago
@dellthinker
As far as I know xenclient requires vpro tech, dualcore or more, and the intel HD chipset.
I know with 1 windows session, you can use the native GPU - it punches through the hypervisor to use it. Citrix is supposed to be working with nvidia and ATI and make them available to the HCL list. Its in their best interest to get that on their compatability list.
I think then debian might work now, but not sure, but only if it has Intel the 4500MHD set.
jabberwolf 1 year ago
@dellthinker
That was kinda the cool thing about xenclient and what I was looking for:
Something that could use the native GPU.
But xenclient isnt really easy to use like a copy down and up to any machine runing (like vmware player or VirtualBox). Its more for corporate use/security.
But as Xen is opensource, I'm really hoping that they make tools for easier individual consumer use.
jabberwolf 1 year ago
@jabberwolf Well I suppose I'll keep an eye out. The inability of using native GPU drivers for guest machines is the only downside of VM's. I'm guessing that Citrix only makes this for commercial software.
dellthinker 1 year ago