May 05
Just saw this little bit of news and had to share. I get asked for this kind of functionality all of the time. Customers ask, "Do you guys have a way for me to reuse my old PC and turn it into a thin client?" In the long run, VMware will have CVP to be able to do this and a lot more. In the short term, DevonIT just announces the VDI-Blaster software for $19.95 per device. It allows you to take an older piece of PC hardware and use it as a thin client to extend it’s life just a little longer. You can find the details on it here . You can also find the press announcement here .
Now to get me a demo copy….
May 5th, 2009 at 7:09 pm
There’s actually a cheap and easy way to do this on existing older PCs using Windows Foundation for Legacy PCs, no extra hardware required. I gave a step-by-step on my blog a little over a month ago:
http://vmjunkie.wordpress.com/2009/03/25/making-a-thin-client-on-fat-hardware-part-1/
May 6th, 2009 at 8:21 am
From the press announcement reguarding CVP
“VMware CVP is a bare-metal client hypervisor optimized to run on desktop and notebook client PCs utilizing Intel® Core®2 and Centrino® 2 processors with Intel® vPro™ technology.”
So cvp will require a minimum of a core2 processor? this doesn’t quality as an “old pc” for most!
May 12th, 2009 at 9:42 pm
sorry nappyrat, I can’t comment on products in development outside of the information already disclosed in the announcement.
May 16th, 2009 at 9:25 pm
Why this instead of the thinstation project? We did hundreds of pc’s as thin clients during our initial buildout, using the tsom (tsomatic) server, which lets you custom build thin clients.