Re: [Xen-API] Looking for Alternatives

[Chris Arnold <carnold@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Dec 5, 2012, at 5:35 PM, Burnie <burnie@xxxxxx> wrote:

> On 12/05/2012 10:56 PM, Grant McWilliams wrote:
>> 
>> On Wed, Dec 5, 2012 at 10:36 AM, Chris Arnold
>> <carnold@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <mailto:carnold@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
>> 
>>    Hello list! I have been tasked with finding an alternative to our
>>    Citrix server. I am unclear if XCP will meet our needs so I thought
>>    I would ask the list. Our needs are:
>>    - published apps
>>    - printing to client printers
>>    - local mapped drives
>>    - audio
>> 
>>    I have looked on the website to see if XCP meets these needs but
>>    have not been able to verify. Can someone point me to a doc that
>>    will tell me if XCP meets our needs or perhaps you already use XCP
>>    in this capacity. Thanks for your help
>> 
>>    Sent from my iPhone
>>    _______________________________________________
>> 
>> 
>> Chris,
>>    XCP pretty much IS Xenserver minus the High Availability
>> functionality. If Xenserver is not doing what you want then XCP probably
>> won't either.
> 
> 
> I think Chris may have got things a bit backwards.
> From his needs, I think he means Citrix XenApp (MetaFrame) server.
> 
> XCP/Xenserver is "hardware virtualization".
> XenApp is "desktop virtualization".
> 
> You can't use XCP for desktop virtualization. (But you can use XCP
> for a virtual machine that 

Sorry for not clarifying. I wasn't sure if XCP did desktop virtualization and 
hardware virtualization. You both answered my question. Thank you so much
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