Guest creation
We In previous chapters we have set up the disk storage elements required for our new virtual machine. We are now ready to create the a Guest.
Open the "Guest/Host/Pool" section of the client, and right click on "Unassigned Guests", and then the pool where you want to create the Guest. Then click on "New Guest".
Alternatively, click on the button with the Guest Icon (blue ball on a box). It is located under the "File" menu item.
Enter "myGuest" as the guest name. Then select the Operating System Distribution that you plan to install on the Guest, or the most similar from best match in the list. This selection is used by the wizard to choose for you the kind of virtual hardware (virtual network card, virtual disk controller, ...) that the virtual machine will have on creation.
Click "Next".
Now choose the Pool where the Guest will be created. Click Next:
In this screen we can configure the virtual hardware of our Guest.
Choose the amount of virtual CPUs and Ram RAM that you want this Guest to use.
In the "Description" field you can enter a descriptive text stating the intended use of the machine, or note down whatever information that you consider useful related to this Guest.
The kind of disk controller, audio, etcetera etc is selected by the wizard, based on the OS that you selected in the previous stepwizard screen, an the kind of hardware that different OS's support on installationbest. You shouldn't change these, unless you perfectly know what you are doing. Changing these settings to values not supported by your OS, can make your Guest OS installation to fail.
Preferred host tells flexVDI Manager on which flexVDI Host should run the machine (if there is an option to choose it). You can leave it empty.
RTC time is used to select the kind of time zone that we want the virtual hardware clock (RTC) of the Guest to store. Different operating systems, have different expectations on these value, and it is needed to select the right value if we want different OS'es to run on the same Hosts. The wizard will select the right value based on the O.S selected in the previous step.
Last, you can select the virtual bridge this Guest create one or more network interfaces for the Guest.Click on "New Interface", and you will be presented a screen like this:
This interface will be connected to . It was created with by flexConfig during server one of the virtual bridges created on the Host with flex-config during server installation and configuration. In this example installation we leave it as is, we will select virbr0 and click on Finish.
All these settings can be changed later (before or after installation of the Guest O.S.), if a different resource set is required.
Now click "Next".
Now we will configure the disk storage units of our Guest. In the a previous chapter we configured a Volume called myVolume, that we will now use to store the virtual disk image of our Guest.
Now, to create the new virtual Disk Image, click on "New image".
To select the Volume where the Disk Image will be created, open "myImageStorage", and select the Volume "myVolume" which is inside. Click "Next".
Now enter "myGuestImage" as the name for the Disk Image. Enter the size of the Disk Image for your Guest (40 GB should be enough for any simple OS installation, but check your OS installation requirements), an click "Finish" to create the image in the selected Volume.
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