xvp (aka Xen VNC Proxy) is a suite of open source programs for managing Citrix XenServer or Xen Cloud Platform (XCP) virtual machines developed by Colin Dean. The console allows to operate and access virtual machines through a browser (no matter if it runs on Linux, Mac OS or Windows), and to migrate VMs across hosts in the same pool. Quite interestingly, all operations are delivered through the VNC protocol: xvp doesn’t just use it for remotely viewing virtual machines console, it also uses it to control VMs status. This is possible through custom extensions to the RFB protocol (which is the foundation of VNC). The Java VNC viewer is cross-platform and is based on TightVNC. xvp 1.5, released last week, comes as a preconfigured virtual appliance (powered by 64bit CentOS 5) which can be deployed on any virtual infrastructure that supports the XVA format.

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Leostream announces today a new minor version for its Connection Broker that arrives over five months after the 6.2 release. In this update the company introduces a number of new features: support for the open source version of Xen (the one released by Xen.org) support for Sun Secure Global Desktop technology support for Ericom Blaze (which comes from the technology partnership signed in November 2009) a web client to access virtual desktops over HTTP/S connections control over the remote desktop protocol used by remote clients when multiple protocols are available a more granular set of roles and permissions that separate end users and administrators rights While every feature above is welcome, the most interesting one is the support for Sun SDG. Th e Oracle acquisition of Sun , and its declared intention to continue investing in the existing virtualisation portfolio, is translating into new opportunities for those vendors that are struggling to compete with VMware in its own domain. And competing against VMware View can be pretty hard these days.

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