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20 November 2009
If you're tired of doing the VNC route to remotely display an apple desktop, check out AquaConnect! AquaConnect brings an RDP Server to OS X Server. This means you can use our Sun Ray Windows Connector to display a Leopard desktop on your Sun Ray and couple it with hot desking and stateless goodness!. Here's a couple of shots of Sun Ray and AquaConnect from MacWorld
(Photo's courtesy of Chris Kawalek)
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Posted by c0t0d0s0.org on January 23, 2009 at 03:00 AM PST #
This can also be done using V-box, is OSX is being installed as a virtual machine as V-Box includes a built-in RDP server,
looks cool though !!.
Posted by Meni Meller on February 02, 2009 at 04:04 AM PST #
Meni, where do you see Virtual Box supports running OS X as a guest? http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Guest_OSes It's not on there. Also per the Apple OS X Eula, you can only virtualize OS X Server on Apple Branded Hardware. This is more like terminal server.
Posted by Thin Guy on February 02, 2009 at 07:05 AM PST #
Also, Virtual Box doesn't emulate EFI as far as I'm aware, so installing OS X on it doesn't even work (unless you know different).
I tried AquaConnect on Mac OS X vanilla (not Server) and audio didn't work - does it work OK on Mac OS X Server?
Posted by Ceri Davies on February 05, 2009 at 01:31 AM PST #
They've been working on audio for some time- but currently I don't think they have it. At Macworld they were saying end of March for sound capabilities. They come out with updates frequently, so I would check with them. Seeing the Sun Ray running OS X was pretty cool at the show!
Posted by Hugh Attinello on February 22, 2009 at 07:58 PM PST #
Well this seems like vapor ware - emailed them 3 times over the month and no reply, no demo product.
Any one actual received them demo product?
Posted by kangcool on March 08, 2009 at 02:26 PM PDT #
Did you email or did you fill out the trial page? http://www.aquaconnect.net/?page_id=14
Posted by Thin Guy on March 08, 2009 at 02:36 PM PDT #
Well if you like AC, you might also check out iRAPP Terminal Server 1.4 | it now support RDP too - Our trial is available for a 30 day full feature test. You also might want to test out the iRAPP Cohesive Client - and get you socks blown off. Here is an example of it working on WinAdmin ( iPhone ) http://bit.ly/XL9dv
Posted by Code Rebel on June 06, 2009 at 02:36 AM PDT #
creator of irapp also created cherryos. Be careful..... see why for yourself and make your own decision...http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CherryOS
Posted by jojo on July 07, 2009 at 01:44 AM PDT #
This is interesting, however if it's running RDP, that means that video will not work very well, right? Shouldn't that give the same audio/video sync Windows has? Has anyone tested this and found out differently?
Posted by joe on July 25, 2009 at 07:04 AM PDT #