Publish Dedicated Desktops using Ubuntu-GNOME and CentOS-GNOME

Once Ubuntu-GNOME or CentOS-GNOME VMs are ready, they can be used in HyWorks deployments in following different ways:

Create a Dedicated Desktop pool using existing Linux VMs

1. From HyWorks Controller Management Console, go to Workspace > Desktop Pools and open Add New Pool wizard.

2. In 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 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

3. Go to Desktops tab and add the Linux VMs prepared with appropriate packages, DVM tools and configurations.

4. From Clients (Devices/Users) add users or devices

5. From Desktop Assignment tab add assignments as per need

6. Configure Client Groups for restricting pool usage to specific client groups

7. In Advance tab,

   1. Select Dedicated Linux VM Pool

   2. Configure rest of the Advance configurations as per requirement

8. 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 source VM is used an template 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:

1. From HyWorks Controller Management Console, go to Workspace > Desktop Pools and open Add New Pool

2. 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

3. Go to Deployment tab

   1. Browse and add the Linux VM as Source VM that is prepared using above mentioned configurations

   2. Provide appropriate entries for remaining mandatory fields e.g. VM-Name prefix, Number of VMs to be deployed etc)

4. 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

5. Configure Client Groups for restricting pool usage to specific client groups

6. In Advance tab,

   1. Select Dedicated Linux VM Pool

   2. Configure rest of the Advance configurations as per requirement

7. 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.