I didn’t get to attend Synergy this year but as soon as XenClient was available I did get to download it and install.
The XenClient install was very smooth on My Dell Latitude E6500. It is on the HCL and the install instruction for disabling features in the BIOS worked like a champ.
I installed Windows 7 and gave it 2 GB of RAM and a 40gig partition. The install went smooth as did installing the XenClient tools.
Once Windows 7 was installed I did run into a few issues. Nothing show stopping, but if you are the type that likes to hear gotcha’s
- Boot Times for the VM were a little longer then I expected. Typical boots took about 3 minutes.
- When running Windows update for the first time it had a 0x80072EE2 error that required I disable windows update and clear out the cache.
- Also if the wireless adaptor was enabled but had no wireless connection, but the wired connection was connected, things like Anti-virus updates wouldn’t work right without disabling the wireless connection.
Otherwise the experience is about what you expect on a laptop.
The Synchronizer experience wasn’t as good.
Coping the file to the XenServer and launching it was easy. The configuration screen was straight forward, but unfortunately the DHCP service didn’t work right on my network and I was forced to use the manual method to edit the files to specify a static IP address and DNS entries.
Even after doing that, the network connection didn’t work as expected.
My hope is the setup for this appliance improves over the next couple of months.
CITRIX has been releasing software at a rapid pace. The competition between them and VMware is really benefiting us.
I look forward to the final release of XenServer & Provisioning Server 5.6 in two weeks, and my hope is that they bundle the advanced edition with XenApp and XenDesktop platinum subscriptions.
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