VMware has open sourced their client for virtual desktop

by nishantmodak on 2/4/2009, 4:52 AM with 11 comments

Code is hosted at google-code.<p>http://code.google.com/p/vmware-view-open-client/<p>which indicates something brewing between the two. ?

  • by tsetse-fly on 2/4/2009, 8:03 AM

    The title is misleading. I get the feeling that everyone who upvoted this submission, did so reflexively without ever visiting the article.

    VMWare is open sourcing VMware View, a product intended for thin client manufacturers.

  • by mmmurf on 2/4/2009, 6:12 AM

    Is there any reason to check this out? I've been using virtualbox for a while and can't think of any reason to stop.

  • by andrewf on 2/4/2009, 5:50 AM

    VMWare's brands within brands within brands continue to confuse me.

    I'm hoping at some point this leads to a client for OS X and/or X11 that can talk to ESXi and VMWare Server. At the moment you have to manually configure each VM to expose a VNC-compatible server, or run the VMWare Windows client inside cough a VM.

  • by jacquesm on 2/4/2009, 9:09 AM

    I'm sure VMware has been studying netscape vs microsoft with a very good spyglass and they've decided to let this trial balloon go up to see if they can harness the oss community to help them out.

    It's very much appreciated that they did this, let's hope that they will do more!

  • by jwilliams on 2/4/2009, 10:40 AM

    Does anyone have experience with this? How much does this overlap with the BaseShield ( http://baseshield.com/ ) offering?