8.7.3. Allocating Virtual Machines
The virtual machines in a pool have the same operating system and installed applications. The pool will allocate identical virtual machines on demand to each user that can access the pool.
Log in to the user portal as
desktopuser. Ensure you have the addomain.demo.redhat.com domain selected.
Procedure 8.3. To Allocate a Virtual Machine
- Select the pool you created. Turn it on by clicking on the play
button, which in this case allocates a virtual machine from the pool.
- The virtual machine assigned to you powers up. Its name reflects the pool it was taken from.
- When the virtual machine displays the text Machine is Ready, double-click the virtual machine logo to access its console window.
- A virtual machine in a pool is stateless; any changes made to the virtual machine are discarded after it has been shut down. In the next section, you will test whether this virtual machine is stateless by seeing changes that you make to it get removed when the virtual machine is returned to the pool. First, make a change to the default virtual machine. For example, create a file on the desktop called
test.txtor add a new user account.
