![]() ![]() WSX is a prototype of a new VMware Workstation web interface that enables users to access their Shared virtual machines via a web browser on a tablet, smart phone or PC without installing any additional applications or browser plug-ins. Hidden among the new features and functions for VMware Workstation 9 is one such "new" wheel: WSX. ![]() It's really reinventing remote display and control with technology better suited to unmanaged, widely variable endpoints using near-ubiquitous protocols, like HTML. Zero-client technology, as many are wont to describe it as. The choices for vendors of VDI technology are support an ever-increasing array of devices (and operating system versions) or find a device/operating system agnostic technology with which to deliver the desktop experience on a mobile device. Thus VDI is not universally supported on mobile devices, despite a (apparent) desire by end-users for just such capabilities. VDI in general requires some form of client application a client application that currently does not exist for every possible end-user client computing device. VDI is not the same as remote display and control, though many neophytes might understand it that way. Remote display and control has been used for a variety of purposes not the least of which is the IT administrator's need to remotely root around on your desktop to troubleshoot an issue. For decades we've had the ability to remotely access and control our desktops using a variety of technologies and protocols: X11, VNC, RDP, and Terminal Services to name a few of the more well-known. Remote display and control technology is nothing new.
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