Compare XenDesktop Server And VDM2 For Yourself
Friday, 08 February 2008 by Michel Roth
Earlier I mentioned that a guy named Gareth James had created a demo environment of XenDesktop 2.0 and made it avaialable via the Internet. Now he has also added VDM2 to the demo pool. Try it out for yourself!

All of the components are running as virtual machines on one ESX host. The XP clients are identical in terms of their configuration and resources.

The two URLs are

The latency is likely to be pretty awful for those not located in South Africa. It is supposed to be slow but usable in South Africa. From Europe the performance is awful. Anyway, give it a try for youself and report back to Gareth.


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Comments (1)
written by Michel, February 10, 2008
Gareth contacted me to say that if you do not have the VDM client installed, the demo Gareth set up will try to download it for you. The 6 MB download is however too much for Gareth's link.

He's providing the client at another location: http://garethcharlotte.googlepages.com/VMware-vdmclient-2.0.0-403.exe

Once you have the client down, try again.
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