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Bicycles and Virtual Desktops

When I was kid... We used to go on bicycle trips... one, two some time three people on one bicycle... the bicycle trip was more fun with more people sitting on them but painful for the driver. Sharing a Single user appliance with multiple users is generally painful for the primary owner of the resource. Let's take the case of Desktop computers. If you carefully analyse a desktop computer, there are three main functions: 1. Access - Keyboard, Video, Mouse, Sound, USB etc. 2. Storage - Harddisk and CDROM 3. Compute - Processor and Memory Let's take the bicycle analogy again of sharing access - this can be realized by software like VNC Server and VNC Viewer - here One Driver(VNC Server) and Many passengers (VNC viewers) can share the Access experience. In this case the passengers(VNC viewers) are the sufferers. So Sharing the Access layer may not be such a good idea. The same is not true for both storage and compute. The Capabilities and capacities of desktop storage and compute e