This may be of interest to the hardware people here. I am thinking of Jeff, Shane and Jason. You can include yourself if you want.
Citrix XenClient is a bare-metal hypervisor running on desktop PCs using the Intel vPro technology which allows it to create virtual machines taking advantage of 3D and HD graphic capabilities of the graphic card installed on the machine. XenClient is based on the same technology as XenServer, a server virtualization platform based on Xen Hypervisor.
Most desktop virtualization solutions, like VMware Workstation or Virtual PC, are based on hardware emulation, a software layer installed between the operating system and the virtual machine, creating a VM environment. …
InfoQ: Citrix Offers a Bare-Metal Hypervisor for the Desktop/Laptop
Tags: virtualization
