Hi Chris,
You shouldn't need to do anything at the VM level. Cloudstack will provide
VNC access via Cloudstack
http://fresnostate.edu/csm/csc/user-guides/connect.html
Shows a good example.
Tracy
On Thu, Jan 16, 2014 at 3:17 PM, Chris Miller c...@tryx.org wrote:
HI Folks,
I'm not clear on what services the cloud platform brings to bear and what
configuration of my virtual machines I have to do to both accommodate
cloudstack or compensate for cloudstack.
If I deploy, say, a Fedora image to my cloudstack cloud absent any
specific configuration, will I be able to use its desktop through, say, a
browser? Obviously, if the Fedora image is properly configured, I could use
VNC or RDP, but does this mean I need to deploy a properly pre-configured
image, or does cloudstack have a mechanism where this configuration is
asserted during spin up or installation in the absence of any overriding
configuration? These also mean I have to have the native clients on my
local machine, and the world is moving toward the universal client, the web
browser, so is there a browser-based way to interact with my virtual
machines' desktops?
And that leaves the final question. Do I configure an image and deploy it
knowing that it will live in a cloud absent display hardware, or can I do
an install to my cloud and expect that the resulting image will have some
method of connection over and above ssh, like some form of remote desktop
provided as a service of the cloud platform?
Thanks for the help,
Chris.
