An Oracle Virtual Desktop Client is a software version of a Sun Ray Client. The Oracle Virtual Desktop Client application runs on an ordinary PC or laptop computer and provides a Sun Ray session in a desktop window. It is supported and can be installed on Windows, Linux, and Mac OS X. An Oracle Virtual Desktop Client supports most of the standard Sun Ray Client functionality.

Instead of relying only on a Sun Ray Client for session access, a user can install and run the Oracle Virtual Desktop Client application on a laptop or a desktop. This is useful, for example, if users use a Sun Ray Client at the office, but they want to access the same Sun Ray session at home from their laptop or desktop.

The Oracle Virtual Desktop Client product is not provided with the Sun Ray Software media image. It must be downloaded separately, which is available from the Sun Ray Products Download page at http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/server-storage/sunrayproducts/downloads/index.html.

See the Oracle Virtual Desktop Client documentation (http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/server-storage/sunrayproducts/docs/index.html) for detailed information about the Oracle Virtual Desktop Client application and its command-line equivalent, the ovdc command.