I don’t know of a good OSS alternative to XenDesktop. From what I’ve seen on Cantivo’s site, no source was released and what was released hasn’t had an update in a few years. VCL I think of more for lab management than virtualized desktop orchestration. Spice itself looks like it has potential, but i haven’t looked deep enough to see how ready-to-go it is, maybe somebody else can chime in. I’m not aware of anybody working on Spice/ACS integration, yet.
John > On Dec 9, 2014, at 11:37 AM, Tilak Raj Singh <tila...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hello John, > > Thanks for your reply. Have looked at XenDesktop but I am looking for some > open source alternative to this..Is there something else available for such > tasks which can be used for both windows and Linux... > I found a few alternatives like spice (http://www.spice-space.org/), apache > VCL (http://vcl.apache.org/) and cantivo (http://cantivo.org/) > I wished to know if any of these an be used with cloudstack? If yes then > can someone please guide me how to do that? > > Regards > > On Tue, Dec 9, 2014 at 5:43 AM, John Kinsella <j...@stratosec.co> wrote: > >> >>> On Dec 5, 2014, at 11:08 PM, Tilak Raj Singh <tila...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>> Hello Everybody, >>> >>> I am new to cloudstack so I dont know if I am going off the topic here. I >>> wished to know how to setup Virtual Desktop Interface (VDI) using >>> cloudstack. I browsed the net and found that openstack has the >> capabilities >>> to setup this feature. Does cloudstack can be used to deploy such a >>> service? If yes some links for the same would be highly appreciated. Also >>> if cloudstack does not have that capability then is there some >> alternative >>> to this? >> >> Hi and welcome! CloudStack can be used with Citrix XenDesktop and XenApp >> to provide VDI services for users. It’s covered in the XenDesktop >> install/setup docs (just replace CloudPlatform with CloudStack) >> >>> Another thing I wanted to know is how to instantiate virtual machines >>> automatically if the load is increased. Have read about load balancing >> and >>> I guess its regarding this only. >> >> If you mean for VDI, XenDesktop can manage this once connected to >> CloudStack. If you mean outside of that setup, the phrase you’re looking >> for is “autoscaling.” Currently it works with either NetScaler load >> balancers or XenServer virtualization. >> >>> The architecture I wish to setup is to provide VDI to several users on >>> demand via browsers, where the compute is done on the virtual machines. >> Now >>> when suppose 10 users are simultaneously using this Virtual Desktop the >>> load on the VM increases so cloudstanck spawns another VM to share the >> load >>> of these 10 users to 5 each on these two VMs created. I hope my doubt is >>> clear. >> >> Yep - XenDesktop will do that for ya. :) >> >> John
