pxe boot

[mrodrigu]

Is it possible to boot via pxe a thin client or a pc from a virtual xp with vmware view as xen desktop does?

Thanks

[admin]

The question is: What goal do you wanna hit? VMware View does not stream a whole OS like Citrix Provisioning Server does if you mean that. VMware View is running the virtual machines directly on the ESX servers and the shared storage and there is no need to stream the OS from another server.

If you mean if it works to boot a VM from PXE for example to install them with a 3rd party deployment solution, this is possible.

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Christoph

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[mrodrigu]

My point is... I want to turn on the thinclient, it should search for a dhcp server and should boot from the virtual machine.

That is the way in xen desktops. My question is if vmware view is able to do the same procedure. As far as I know you always need to use a client to access the virtual machine with vmware view.

Thanks again.

[Linjo]

Just to make it crystal clear:

Where do you want your OS to execute? On the thin client or on in the datacenter?

Best regards,

Linjo

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[admin · Accepted solution]

To clarify that:

Citrix does have two methods to deliver a desktop.

1.) Provisioning Server

2.) hand-made virtual machine

For point 1, they can stream a complete OS like Windows XP into a VM hosted on ESX, XEN or Hyper-V and the user does access the desktop via the Citrix Client and the ICA protocol. They can also stream the OS directly to a hardware from Provisioning Server but NOT to a Thin Client because the OS like Windows XP has some specific hardware requirements (RAM / CPU etc.). What they do here is starting the Citrix client on the Thin Client and then connect to the hosted desktop via ICA again. They can stream the OS directly to a hardware desktop system if the hardware is capable for the OS.

VMware View can use Thin Clients or FAT Clients where the View Client connects to the hosted desktop on ESX via RDP or in the next View version with PCoIP, the VMware/Teradici co-development protocol.

Booting the Thin Clients from PXE must be supported by their vendor but there is no need to do that due to NO intelligence needed on the TC.

Regards,

Christoph