Is there a Hyper-V virtual machine client for XP? Linux? Mac?

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Published on 2010-05-22T21:36:03Z Indexed on 2010/05/22 21:41 UTC
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Is there a Hyper-V virtual machine client for XP? Linux? Mac? I'm aware that we could VNC or RDP into the virtual machine but the problem is if the VM is not running or is suspend the end user can't start it and IT needs to get involved.

I guess what I'm looking for is something like VMconnect.exe that runs on xp or linux. Or, If I am totally barking up the wrong tree let me know. ;-)

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