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Citrix Desktopplayer For Mac카테고리 없음 2020. 2. 9. 15:58
Citrix Desktop Player For Mac
Citrix Releases Mac Version of DesktopPlayer The Mac version is a mobile client virtualization solution that's used in conjunction with Citrix XenDesktop to provide always-connected services. By. VMware Fusion and Parallels have some competition, now that Citrix released a Mac version of its DesktopPlayer last week. The Mac version is a mobile client virtualization solution that's used in conjunction with Citrix XenDesktop to provide always-connected services. Like the Windows version, DesktopPlayer for Mac gives IT management control of Mac laptops.
Citrix Desktop Player For Mac Mac
Those laptops sporting DesktopPlayer can gain access to virtualized Windows applications in the same way that Windows machines can access those services. The beauty of running Desktop Player is that it doesn't consume much in the way of local device resources and doesn't have to be rebooted every time a user wants to switch between the Mac or Windows interfaces. As well, DesktopPlayer for Mac can run those services in environments that have unstable or poor connections without interruption. Services on the devices are always maintained by IT centrally. Citrix Desktop Player for Mac is available as an add-on for those using Flexcast for distribution, starting at $75 per machine. More info is.
The wait started back in May of 2013 when Citrix announced the Citrix Desktop Player for Mac, a type-2 client hypervisor built upon Oracle VirtualBox. It made sense for Citrix to go this route because they had zero coverage of the Mac space with XenClient (despite a few hope-inducing demos over the years).
Rather than building their own product from scratch, they decided to OEM Oracle VirtualBox due in part to it’s native support for VHD files. Though a type-2 hypervisor was the only way Citrix was going to have any way of managing corporate desktops on Macs, the fact that the host OS doesn’t need to be wiped is a nice added benefit. So nice, in fact, that people immediately began asking for a Windows version of Desktop Player. Sure, there are other options (MokaFive and VMware Fusion Pro/Player Pro, for example), but those require straying from a Citrix-only solution.
In May of 2014 at Synergy Citrix announced that they were, in fact, and that a Tech Preview would be available soon. After five months, though, the says that it’s still “Coming Soon:” So what gives? Is Citrix not going to use VirtualBox for the Windows version of DesktopPlayer? You would think that if they did the work to create a Mac version on vBox that it wouldn’t be that hard to create a Windows version. Of course, every time I’ve made that sort of generalization the project has taken ten times longer than I thought it would (remember when I would guess how long it would take to process the BriForum videos?) Still, I’d love to see something sooner than later surrounding Desktop Player, or at least to know if Citrix is still pursuing it.
Even the @DesktopPlayer twitter account is pretty quiet about the Windows version, without so much as a mention of it since May. Could it be that there really isn’t that large of a demand, so it’s been put on the back burner? Maybe it’s to make way for new directions within the company.
DesktopPlayer is a client virtualization solution for the Windows and Mac platform that allow users to run Windows virtual desktops on their local end devices and uses a Type-2 hypervisor that installs on top of the OS. Citrix today announced the availability of Citrix® DesktopPlayer for Mac, a client virtualization solution, which extends the benefits of the market-leading Citrix XenDesktop® solution to mobile MacBook users. Management for Corporate or BYO MacBooks – When using XenDesktop with DesktopPlayer, the same Windows virtual desktop can be.