Monthly Archives: May 2011

Updated Tolly Report released

Posted on May 31, 2011 by cwall

The updated Tolly report compares XenDesktop 5 and View 4.6, you can find it here.

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Motorola Xoom versus Apple’s iPad2

Posted on May 18, 2011 by cwall

For a couple of weeks now I have been using the Motorola Xoom tablet with the soon to be released VMware View client.  Here is a link to VMware DEMO Lab video, from BriForum 2011 London, of coarse you need to … Continue reading →

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PCoIP Recommended Practices for Networking Devices

Posted on May 16, 2011 by cwall

As usual Andre has a great write up on recommended practices for PCoIP here.

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VDI USER EXPERIENCE and USER ACCEPTANCE

Posted on May 9, 2011 by cwall

Andre has a great article on user experience and user acceptance here.  It is a good read, check it out!

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Gentoo Linux and forked-daapd

Posted on May 6, 2011 by cwall

A while back I converted over to forked-daapd from mt-daapd when one of the iTunes updates broke my network streaming of music in the house.  I have been very happy with forked-daapd, but since version 0.13 I have had difficulty … Continue reading →

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Gentoo Linux and iscsitarget

Posted on May 5, 2011 by cwall

I was upgrading the kernel on my Gentoo server that host my ISCSI LUNs for the home lab and ran into some issues with kernel version 2.6.37-r4 and iscsitarget 1.4.20.2.  I had to use the development (subversion) version of it.  Here … Continue reading →

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Logitech HD Pro Webcam C910

Posted on May 4, 2011 by cwall

From my previous article, the testing with Microsoft webcams and View went well, specially on the zero clients.  On the soft clients it took a little more work.  When I tried the Logitech HD Pro Webcam C910 on the zero client … Continue reading →

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Webcams and VMware View

Posted on May 3, 2011 by cwall

So, to start out the official VMware support stance on webcams is that they are not supported (KB article 1003777 and in the View Admin Guide page 292), but some folks have played around and had success.  I have personally … Continue reading →

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EVGA Zero Client

Posted on May 2, 2011 by cwall

I received the EVGA Zero Client today and have been testing out all day.  So far I have to say that I am loving it!  I plan on taking with me to a few customers this week to show.  I … Continue reading →

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