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. 

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