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Hi there
running Citrix though is a COMMECIAL product - but there is OPEN SOURCE equivalent XEN SERVER based on Citrix which has the advantage of being able to run from a LINUX system --I'll have to agree Hardware management is better BUT sometimes you'll get issues with things like Sound and special hardware attached via USB devices --so it's not always a given that a Windows VM will work exactly as you want --however it's brilliant for all "Office" type stuff. Local access works too --and also if you run it from something like a CENTOS system you've also got the robustness of Red Hat's enterprise products behind you - and all for FREE !!.
Note the latest version does a lot more though - maybe I'll try it. (I'll use the FREE 6.5 version though - it's based on CITRIX).
http://www.citrix.com/news/announcem...tware-def.html
HYPER-V seems IMO an Ms Catch up --- not quite ready for prime time if you need your VM's to do anything out of the ordinary.
VMWARE though for typical users who aren't experienced a lot with VM's is still the easiest method of running quite complex VM's decently and it runs on both Linux AND windows so the same VM can run on EITHER system without change --just open the vmx file on EITHER system. It certainly has better USB support (including USB3), 3D graphics and the latest versions of PLAYER and WORKSTATION now have dynamic memory management so RAM is used only when the VM needs it.
Cheers
jimbo
Last edited by jimbo45; 03 Mar 2015 at 03:36.