flexVDI Dashboard provides a full graphic user interface to manage the Guests, Pools, and other logical objects of the flexVDI virtualization environment running on one or more flexVDI Host.
This tutorial provides an introduction to basic operations using the flexVDI Dashboard. It describes the parts of the program, which correspond to the objects in the infrastructure. The tutorial will guide you through the steps required to set up a complete environment, until you create a Guest machine and connect to it.
This guide assumes that you have a running flexVDI Manager and a flexVDI Host. Installation and configuration of these servers is out of the scope of this document, and the reader should refer to the relevant documentation. Installation Guide for flexVDI 2.2 is a good starting point.
These are the requirements for the machine where the flexVDI Dashboard will be installed:
The windows installer includes all the packages required to run flexVDI Dashboard. No additional software is required.
In order to fully execute flexVDI Dashboard, you need to have correctly installed Spicy. This spice protocol client is used by flexVDI Dashboard to connect to the consoles of the Guests. It is part of the package spice-gtk-client, and can be installed from your Linux distribution repositories with the following command (that you should execute with root privileges):
OS Distribution | Installation command |
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RedHat/CentOS/Scientific Linux | yum install spice-gtk-tools |
Ubuntu/Debian | apt-get install spice-client-gtk |
OpenSUSE | zypper install spice-gtk |
Alternatively, it can be dowloaded from:
http://www.spice-space.org/download.html
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.
In order to follow the instructions in this guide, previously you'll need to set up the following infrastructure:
Getting Started with flexVDI 2.2 provides detailed information to install and configure your flexVDI Hosts and flexVDI Manager, and explains how to setup a CIFS server using flexVDI Config.
While following this guide, you will need to have the following information at hand:
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.
There are two Linux versions of the installer. One for 32 bits i586 machines, and one for x64 machines.You can determine which one better suits your OS installation by executing the following:
$ uname -i |
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Download the right installer from flexvdi.com, and save it in the directory where you wish to install it.
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_2.2.n-x64_installer.run |
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Execute the installer clicking on it, or executing:
$ ./flexVDI_Dashboard_2.2.n-x64_installer.run |
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Now you can launch the flexVDI Dashboard with:
$ ./flexVDI_Dashboard_2.2.n-x64/flexVDIDashboard.sh |
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In this guide we will create the elements needed to start launching Guest Virtual Machines in a simple infrastructure.
We will: