Citrix finds new use for virtualization: Avoiding PC price hikes caused by tariffs Citrix has found a new use for virtualization: Avoiding tariffs. “In 2025, new US tariffs have pushed IT hardware prices into uncharted territory,” Vice President of Product Philipp Benkler wrote in a Tuesday post that warns “The April 2025 tariffs are already driving cost hikes, and experts suggest further increases could …
Yes, VMware Fusion 13.x allows a vTPM as virtual hardware for a guest. Win 11 runs great on Fusion.
For host hardware, Fusion 13 needs to be able to run on MacOS 12 or later. The list of Macs that support 12 are here:
https://support.apple.com/en-us/103260
Yes and no. That's why Microsoft gives you free 3 years of Win10 ESU if you buy their virtual desktops.
you can access your VDIs from supported linux, or supported chromeOS. Or even run a virtual win11 desktop on a type 1 hypervisor (if your hardware can handleit).
the hardware does not have to be win11 compliant, but the type 1 hypervisor, or os (+ type 2 hypervisor) must be actively supported on said hardware in order to run or access Virtual Win11
for what happens when you overload your network and/or SAN by a (say) callcenter shift change at X o clock and 100+ VMs have to boot
Back in the day when Beowulf clusters were new kids on the block I recall a network booting solution using ipv4 multicast which addressed this problem. Booting clients joined a multicast group and all sucked up the same UDP packets. The protocol's details must have been fiendishly clever.
I don't remember its name or whether it just just replaced the usually very slow pxe tftp of the kernel and initial ram disk from the boot server or was more involved than that. Or whether it was FOSS or proprietary.
The term Boot strorms exist since thedays when you booted an hdd less ms-dos pc and loged to netware for your ms-dos / windows 3.1 needs. Typical of cash strapped university labs
flapping is another quoloquial term used by us nw engineers. Noadays frequently causedby stp (stp network flapping)
There are many more quoloquial terms like this
At last the semblance of respecting rules and democracy has been dropped.
DOGE exists for one thing : to ensure the companies of the billionnairs who have taken part in this sham are allowed to ensure that their profits are secure.
We've known for years that those with money will always have the means to bend things in their favor. Relations, dinners, galas, all those occasions where the cigar-smoking elite agree that the peons are not concerned by their "little" arrangements.
Now, there is a government agency that is specifically meant to enshrine those little arrangements with the force of law.
How convenient.
"a Linux-based OS that allows a PC to boot straight into a hosted virtual desktop"
On what is the virtual desktop hosted? It's going to be real H/W so unless it's already onshore that's going to be tariffed or in Canada. Why not cut out stick with the middle man and run the desktop directly on Linux?
Running win11 as a VM or VDI, on non Win11 capable HW is perfectly valid. As long as the whole package is under active support.
examples iclude ms themselves, where, if you use win10 on a non-win-11 compliant HW to access a cludy win11 machine, they give you 3 years of ESU for free.
ditto for accessing Win11 VDIs from macos or(supported *) linux or chromeos.
Unsupported chromeos (like flexos) not allowed, and obscure linux distros with active patching, while allowed, would be acompliance nightmare.
dito for runninng win11 locally on atype 1 or type2 hypervisor. As long asthe underlyig HW+SW combo is supported and certified by everyone imvolved, you can run 1Win11 with emulated "whatever you need" most likely 7th gen intel with no TPM2
Thanks for the heads-up mate.
Difficult to repair Blackberry Keyone keyboard. Requested a spare, got lost in the mail. And even if I had it, will not replace until something more critical than space get broken.
I already requested a Clicks for RAZR+ 20224 (and the corresponding phone), let's see how that goes...
This post, OTOH, was written on my desktop, the Keys spacing is off by "just that much" (and layout is weird as it is a 60%), so I hit the wrong key from time to time, but better than the KeyOne.
I have supported Citrix products since Metaframe on NT4 TS edition & work at a long term Citrix partner supporting SMBs.
Ever since the morph into Cloud Software Group, they have basically done a Broadcom. Targeted large companies and ignored everybody else, screwing over partners in the process. They have priced themselves out of almost all the companies we work with. It is a real shame. I still really like their products, but almost all our clients are dropping them when they get the license renewal quotes. You can no longer buy individual products, you have to get a subscription for the entire product set at eye watering prices. At one point during the transition you couldn't even buy licenses which dropped one of our customers into a hole when their existing subscription expired and they couldn't renew.
Couple this with the axing of almost all the support & pre-sales people we had great relationships with. Their support now is abysmal.
We have used Citrix internally ever since our company started, but even we have had to drop them with the partner licensing changes.
Odd, because I am still using it to support multiple critical local client/server apps at numerous clients. And any that do move away from Citrix due to Citrix licensing becoming unobtainium are mainly switching to straight RDP, but still using local apps. Not everything has a web alternative and not all data can be allowed outside of your own datacentre for legal reasons.
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