Release: Citrix XenClient 2.0

n May this year, during Citrix Synergy Citrix announced a technical preview of the next version of its client hypervisor XenClient version 2.0. Today Citrix released version 2.0 making it generally available.

Besides releasing XenClient 2.0 Citrix also released XenApp version 6.5, XenDesktop 5.5 and new versions of the Connector for Windows and Mac.

XenClient provides the following new functionality:

• Expanded hardware support, allowing the XenClient to run on 3x as many systems as the first release.

• New version of Synchronizer making it more suitable for larger and more complex environments.

• Support for Windows 7 SP1 32 and 64 bit
• Support for Ubuntu 11.04

• Integrated Audio Drivers for Windows 7

• Support for up to 8GB of memory for local virtual desktops.
• User Profile Virtualization
• Smart disk block filtering, which automatically removes unused disk blocks, Windows pagefiles and other unnecessary data.
• Connection throttling
• Support for Active Directory environments with complex trust relationships
  --> the rest is on the blog : http://virtualization.info/en/news/2011/08/release-citrix-xenclient-2-0.html