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If you don't have Spicy installed, you will be able to use flexVDI Dashboard to manage your flexVDI Data Center, but you won't be able to open the consoles of the Guests.
Previous steps
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- One flexVDI Host
- One flexVDI Manager
- One Windows shared folder (or another CIFS/SMB server) with an ISO image of the Operating System installer for the Guest Virtual Machine.
flexVDI 2.2 installation guide provides detailed information to install and configure your flexVDI Hosts and flexVDI Manager, and explains how to setup a CIFS server using flexVDI Config.
Installation Guide for flexVM 2.1 provides detailed information to install and configure your flexVM Servers.
When While following this guide, you will need to have the following information at hand:
- flexHostflexVDI Hosts: IP address or name, and a path with disk space to store the disk images of the virtual machines.
- flexManagerflexVDI Manager: IP address, user (default is admin) and password.
- Network path (server ip, path, and file name) and credentials (user and password) to read the ISO file with the OS Installation that you want to install in your Guest.
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flexVDI Dashboard installation
Windows installation
Just download the latest version of flexVDI Dashboard installer from http://flexvdi.com/ and execute it as a user with administrative privileges. This will create an icon in the desktop, and an entry in the Start Menu.
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Now open a terminal, go to the directory where you saved the downloaded file, and give the installer program execution permission with:
$ chmod u+x ./flexVDI _Dashboard_2.02.n-x64_installer.run |
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Execute the installer clicking on it, or executing:
$ ./flexVDI _Dashboard_2.02.n-x64_installer.run |
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Now you can launch the flexVDI Dashboard with:
$ ./flexVMflexVDI_Dashboard_Client_2.02.n-x64/flexVDI DashboardflexVDIDashboard.sh |
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Overview
In this guide we will create the elements needed to start launching Guest Virtual Machines in a simple infrastructure.
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