Diskless clients booting VDI

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Can someone point me to the references to configure booting of diskless clients using an image managed by the hypervisor?  I am planning on thin clients but I have some spare blades I can practice on.

thanks

EB
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David Powles's picture Red Hat 25369 points
18 September 2012 1:59 AM

Since you haven't got a response from the community on this one yet, I'm going to see if one of our associates can help you out.

DY Guru 5340 points
18 September 2012 6:36 AM

Just trying to understand what you are trying to do - if what you are after is to have a diskless client boot using the network, and connect to a VDI session, there is no special support for that in RHEV, and it is not really required. 

What you can do is setu up a PXE server that will allow your diskless cleints to boot into a basic RHEL X session that can run firefox, and set the default page for that firefox to the RHEV user portal.

This way, a booting client will pick up the OS with the browser from PXE, boot up, and see the user portal login prompt

EB Active Contributor 176 points
18 September 2012 11:23 AM

A thin client manufacturer told me that PXE boot would take longer and the entire OS would need to occupy all the resident memory. He referred to other access methods attaching to the VM running on the host server.  We already have PXE configurations established for our diskless blades.  I was looking to employ the methodology he was referring to on our blades to establish some framework before purchasing the thin clients.  Is there an open source way to do this or is this proprietary method dependent on the manufacturer?

DY Guru 5340 points
18 September 2012 2:22 PM

Can you please explain, in detail, what it is you are trying to achieve?

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