I don't know too much about this, but I use a Mac at work and we have a Citrix VDI farm. When I need something Windows specific like Visio or IE, I launch the portal and click the app icon, and the Windows app opens like any other window on my Mac desktop. The only trick seems to be that file access is weird because the app isn't actually running on my desktop, but a network share solves that easily.
I actually prefer RDP to a Windows server vm we have living in our development lab. Adam > On Mar 26, 2016, at 9:11 AM, Edward Ned Harvey (lopser) > <lop...@nedharvey.com> wrote: > > 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. > _______________________________________________ > Tech mailing list > Tech@lists.lopsa.org > https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech > This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators > http://lopsa.org/
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