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07 May 2009 02:45 PM EDT
Ian Pratt Demonstration of Xen on a Client Device(s)
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posted by Stephen Spector

Ian Pratt recently was on stage during the keynote sessions at Citrix Synergy showing the current implementation of the Type 1 Xen client hypervisor running on a PC and Mac. He did the demonstrations with Patrick Gelsinger from Intel.

The complete 45 minute Intel presentation is at http://www.citrix.com/tv/#video/423.

To see Ian demonstrate the Windows Xen client go to 27 minutes 30 seconds. To see Ian demonstrate the Mac Xen client go to 42 minutes as Mark Templeton joins the stage.

For more information on the Xen Client Inititiave in the Xen.org open source community, go to http://wiki.xensource.com/xenwiki/General_Project_Information. The complete source code of the current XCI is at http://xenbits.xen.org/xenclient. If you have any questions on the open source Xen.org community, please let me know at stephen.spector@xen.org.

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  1. May 08, 2009

    Neil Hiorns says:

    What architecture does XenClient run on (x86 and/or x64)? Will XenClient have an...

    What architecture does XenClient run on (x86 and/or x64)?
    Will XenClient have an ICA client built into it?

  2. May 08, 2009

    Stephen Spector says:

    The Xen Client that Ian demonstrated is a Type 1 Hypervisor that runs on the har...

    The Xen Client that Ian demonstrated is a Type 1 Hypervisor that runs on the hardware directly with no operating system. The Windows and Mac OS X operating systems that you see are running on top of the Hypervisor independent of the hardware. The ICA Client will not be built into the Hypervisor, but rather run in the operating systems (Virtual Machines).  I believe the Hypervisor will run on both 32 bit and 64 bit platforms but am not sure which Ian demonstrated.

    I expect more information on this solution to come from Citrix in the near future as they are working on a final product based on open source Xen called XenClient. 

  3. May 08, 2009

    Anonymous says:

    No video appears on the link provided (http://www.citrix.com/tv/#video/423)

    No video appears on the link provided (http://www.citrix.com/tv/#video/423)

  4. May 08, 2009

    Stephen Spector says:

    Strange, when I click on the link I see the video fine. Did you try going to htt...

    Strange, when I click on the link I see the video fine. Did you try going to http://www.citrix.com/tv and then searching for Patrick Gelsinger?

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  5. Aug 04

    Anonymous says:

    I tried to compile the source code at http://xenbits.xen.org/xenclient, this wen...

    I tried to compile the source code at http://xenbits.xen.org/xenclient, this went without a problem.
    Then through the help of the mailing list I managed to create a VM in the background.
    But is there any documentation on how to accomplish what Ian did, and really make the VM's run on the screen and switch between them?

    Thanks

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