Hi, if you do not want to modify acs to add spice support you could use ovirt : it is not a desktop as a service platform but it let you to add some user permissions and it supports spice. Regards
Ignazio Il giorno 10/dic/2014 17:29, "Nux!" <n...@li.nux.ro> ha scritto: > 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 >
