Until ACS supports Spice, if ever, I think you're better off with "on-VM" softare such RDP for Windows and X2GO/NX for Linux.
HTH Lucian -- Sent from the Delta quadrant using Borg technology! Nux! www.nux.ro ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Tilak Raj Singh" <tila...@gmail.com> > To: users@cloudstack.apache.org > Sent: Tuesday, 9 December, 2014 19:37:55 > Subject: Re: Desktop as a service > 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
