Desktop virtualization is entering into the corporate limelight, after many years of existence as a consumer toy. Recently, for example, Citrix and Intel announced a partnership that will deliver an embedded bare-metal client hypervisor by the second half of 2009. Startup contender Virtual Computer, founded by server virtualization guru and Virtual Iron ex-CTO Alex Vasilevsky, has had its NxTop product in Beta since the fourth quarter of 2008. And it’s likely VMware will follow suit with a desktop hypervisor.
