Suppose you have a mac (or a bunch of people using macs) and you want to have windows too. Option 1 is to use vmware/parallels/virtualbox, and run the windows VM inside the mac. The problem here is forcing the need for expensive mac upgrades in cpu, memory, and disk space, and then there are no good backup options for the windows VM. Time machine is great at most stuff but terrible at backing up guest VM's. Windows backup software also sucks (the best I can find is acronis, which leaves a lot to be desired). The requirement is whole-system windows snapshot. Therefore, it's highly desirable for the windows VM storage to exist someplace like a netapp or zfs filesystem, that can easily snapshot windows for backups. Which brings me to the topic of VDI.
I can easily make a windows VM available from the LAN or cloud server infrastructure, and access it via RDP. But the user experience over RDP is nowhere near as slick as the user experience of a physical machine, or local VM. I'm pretty sure there are VDI solutions that make great steps toward providing a local/native user experience, for windows machines accessed over the network. Right? Googling around, I'm not finding much. It seems most likely I don't have the right terminology.
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