Introduction
As new and existing XenDesktop customers continue to move their virtual desktop environments and grow to the advantages of centralization harvest, mobility, safety and operational efficiency, Citrix Linux Virtual desktop Agent, which integrates with XenApp and XenDesktop has and expands the FlexCast management Architecture (FMA) to allow additional applications in industries such as automotive, manufacturing, oil , technology companies added and gas and financial services. With the release of XenDesktop 7.6 Feature Pack 3, which includes the updated Linux Virtual Desktop 1.1, it is now possible to integrate even more Linux distribution. As a continuation of our previous version of Citrix Workspace Suite on VMware vSphere 6 Reference Architecture blog will discuss how easily we could Linux VDAS integrate to an existing Citrix Workspace Suite providing for deployment.
Preparation
You can create Linux virtual desktops based on SUSE and Red Hat distributions. The following Linux distributions of Linux Virtual Desktop product are supported.
- SUSE Linux Enterprise
- Desktop 11 Service Pack 3
- Desktop 11 Service Pack 4
- 12 Desktop
- Server 11 service Pack 3
- Server 11 service Pack 4
- Server 12
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux
- workstation 6.6
- workstation 6.7
- workstation 7.0
- workstation 7.1
- Server 6.6
- Server 6.7
- Server 7.0
- Server 7.1
for our application, we chose SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SUSE servers was 12 installation straight forward documentation can be found here. The dimensioning of the Linux VM to be independent for your own environment and application requirements, for our test, we configured the VM with 2vCPUs and 16 GB RAM.
Once we installed the SUSE operating system, we. Setup vino that is the VNC server integrated into GNOME desktop environments to gain for easy use remote access in the VM Note that used in SUSE Server 12, vino default encrypted connection (TLS), which may not be supported by all VNC clients on all platforms.
We have to disable us for encryption on wine by. The following command as a normal user run
gsettings set org.gnome.Vino require encryption false
Known VNC clients are supporting TLS encryption "vinagre" (GNOME VNC client), virt-viewer (libvirt VM client for Windows from http://virt-manager.org/download/ (http://virt-manager.org/download/)). For more information, see the SUSE server 12 releases here Sheet
Linux prepare VDA
The Linux VDA configuration process is simple. Preparing virtual machine Linux, install the new Linux 1.1 VDA software ( Citrix registration required ) on it, your Delivery Controller configure if necessary and then use Studio to create a Catalogue and desktops provide users with a delivery group.
to the Linux operating system for the VDA software installation preparation is a bit more involved. If you are new Linux, it can feel a little overwhelming. Citrix has installation instructions for SUSE and Red Hat released you through the process. These documents are a must read to get you through the installation. For more information, see the following documents:
- installation guide for SUSE
- Installation Instructions for Red Hat
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Figure 1: Linux machine catalog
Figure 2: Linux delivery Group
testing of Linux VDA
Once machine catalog and delivery group were created, it is time to test run the Linux desktop. The following screenshot shows our Linux desktop
. Figure 3: Linux Desktop
The following screenshot is Windows started 10 desktop and a Linux desktop from the same Citrix Receiver
. Figure 4: Linux Desktop and Windows 10 Desktop
Recap and conclusion
As you can see, is a simple process existing Workspace Suite providing a Linux VDAS Add. Citrix is making progress installation and deployment easier in future releases continue. Customers consider can do to add Linux to their virtual desktop deployment now so with the latest Linux Virtual Desktop Agent published with XenDesktop 7.6 Feature Pack 3
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