From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: graham Subject: App virtualisation, not OS virtualisation Date: Thu, 20 Oct 2005 01:55:19 +0100 Message-ID: <4356EAF7.6030707@t5labs.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xensource.com Errors-To: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xensource.com To: xen-devel@lists.xensource.com List-Id: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org I would like to run multiple copies of an application on a PC with multiple remote dumb clients. It would seem to me that running Xen would be a sub-optimal solution as I would need a copy of the OS running for every copy of the application, but I was wondering whether a subset of Xen or Xen techniques could be used. There are 2 barriers to running multiple applications with remote access: - the application may check to see if a copy is already running and block a second copy starting up; - how to feed mouse / keyboard input to the relevant copy of the application. I'd like to be able to do this on Windows XP and am happy to wait for the next Intel / AMD chips with virtualisation support if that helps. Any pointers would be gratefully appreciated. Regards Graham