Publish Dedicated Desktops using Ubuntu-GNOME and CentOS-GNOME

Once Ubuntu or RHEL/CentOS based VMs are ready, they can be used in HyWorks deployments in following different ways:

Create a Dedicated Desktop pool using existing Linux VMs

From HyWorks Controller Management Console, go to VDI > Pools and open Add New Pool wizard.
In General tab
1. Provide appropriate pool name, Display Name and description
2. Select Entitlement Type as Device based or User based
3. Select Desktop Pool Type as Persistent Virtual Desktop
4. Select Session Provider as the one, which is hosting the target Linux VMs
5. Keep Provisioning as None
6. Select Assignment Life Span as Personal Desktop or Floating Desktop
7. Select Connection Profile for this pool. You can select None you do not want to assign connection profile for the pool
8. Set Remote Desktop Connection Port as being used by Linux VMs (Default is 3389).
9. Keep the Active flag as checked and Maintenance Mode as unchecked for pool to be available for end-users.
Go to Desktops tab and add the Linux VMs prepared with appropriate packages, DVM tools and configurations.
From Clients (Devices/Users) add users or devices
From Desktop Assignment tab, assign desktops to users or devices or keep it automatic for automatic assignment
Configure Classification Rules for restricting pool usage to classified client groups.
In Advance tab,
1. Option Dedicated Linux VM Pool must be checked.
2. Configure rest of the Advance configurations as per requirement
Check the configurations in Summary and save the desktop pool.

Now user with valid credentials can access the configured Linux desktop VM from HyWorks endpoints.

Create a Provisioned Desktop Pool using a Source Image

Provisioned Desktop pools are created when a VM is used as template or source to deploy multiple virtual machines. Here the source VM is Linux VDI server prepared appropriately using details provided above.

Follow the below given steps to create a provisioned desktops pool using prepared Linux VDI server as source VM:

From HyWorks Controller Management Console, go to VDI > Pools and open Add New Pool
In Add Desktop Pool wizard, General tab
1. Provide appropriate pool name and description
2. Select Entitlement Type as Device based, or User based
3. Select Desktop Pool Type as Persistent Virtual Desktop
4. Select Session Provider as the one which is hosting the target Linux VM
5. Keep Provisioning as Dynamic
6. Select Assignment Life Span as Personal Desktop or Floating Desktop
7. Select Connection Profile, if any specific connection profile is required or keep as None for no specific connection profile for the pool
8. Set Remote Desktop Connection Port as being used by Linux VMs (Default is 3389).
9. Keep the Active flag as checked and Maintenance Mode as unchecked for pool to be available for end-users.
Go to Deployment tab
1. Browse and add the Linux VM as Source VM that is prepared using appropriate process.
2. Set Source VM OS as Linux.
3. Provide appropriate entries for remaining mandatory fields e.g. VM-Name prefix, Number of VMs to be deployed etc.
From the Customization enable the customization of new VMs as per input provided. Provide appropriate entries for mandatory fields, e,g. Computer-Name prefix, if cloned VM to be joined to domain, then domain details and user having privileges to join the machine to domain etc.
1. For AD based deployments, select option Join Domain
2. For LDAP/Workgroups, select option Workgroup
From Clients (Devices/ Users) tab, add users or end-points to be given access of the VMs from this pool.
Configure Classification Rules for restricting pool usage to classified client groups
In Advance tab, configure the Advance configurations as per requirement
Check the configurations in Summary and save the desktop pool.

New desktops are provisioned as per the provided configurations. It might take 10 seconds to 15 seconds to launch the first user session.

Now user with valid credentials can access the configured Linux desktop VM from HyWorks endpoints.