On Sep 11, 2013, at 2:33 PM, Henry Schaffer <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
In looking into the use of Linux images in the VCL and using xRDP to allow Windows and Mac users to access the images in their usual way - RDP Client, I've come across two more RDP Client products, both Open Source. CoRD http://cord.sourceforge.net/ for Macs. (I can't figure out what the acronym stands for!) CoRD means: Cocoa over RDesktop (It is a simple Cocoa wrapper around the RDesktop software) This is what I tend to use to connect to VCL reservations. The caveat is that audio is not forwarded over the RDP connection, so if audio is an important part of the VCL image, then you will need to use another RDP client. I have also found that transferring large files between the VM and my local machine can occasionally cause CoRD to crash. Otherwise, it is a very nice piece of software. FreeRDP http://www.freerdp.com/ which has free Android and iOS ports available. (It would be good to hear of any experiences with this, as more and more students have mobile devices.) --henry schaffer
