The lab hardware consisted of a Dell R610 (12 CPU cores, 96GB RAM, four 2.5' Micron M500DC SSD drives and two WD 750G Black HDD drives) a 24 port 1GB switch and various endpoint clients. In order to investigate VDI running Linux desktops, I set up a VDI environment in my lab. A simple VDI architecture is shown in Figure 1. The broker handles the entitlement of users, the association of users with virtual desktops, and in some cases the provisioning of the virtual desktops. The VM has an agent running inside of it that relays information back to the broker. I'll be using Horizon View for this investigation, but most of the information is pertinent to other VDI brokers.įor those new to using VDI, the concept is straightforward: a user uses a client device (laptop, thin client, tablet and so on) to connect to a broker in order to connect to a Linux desktop running as a virtual machine (VM) on a hypervisor. Now that all major VDI vendors support Linux desktops, I wondered if using a VDI broker with Linux could significantly help with the entitlement, authentication, provisioning, security and management of Linux desktops over physical Linux desktops.

I outlined five of these in a recent article. This also provides the error message I mentioned at first: FATAL: No bootable medium found! System halted.There are many reasons that enterprises may wish to use Linux desktops within a virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) broker. I have also tried converting using the VBoxManage command as shown on this page: Qemu-img: Could not open './duketest.img'

Qemu-img: Could not open './duketest.img': Invalid argument I have also tried converting from qcow2 to vdi using the qemu-img linux package, however I continually get the following error messages: #> qemu-img convert -f qcow2 original.img -O vdi converted.vdi I have also read the answer on this Server Fault question, but this question is slightly different, as it is talking about moving a Windows VM from KVM to VirtualBox. What I have tried already is using qemu to convert the. img file, or if I would be able to convert the image from KVM to VDI and then just run the server in VirtualBox directly. I do not know if I would have to install KVM in VirtualBox and then configure it to run the VM in my. vdi file using qemu-img from raw to vdi, however the VirtualBox instance starts up and simply states: FATAL: No bootable medium found! System halted. img file and 'emulate' the server within VirtualBox. The Virtual Machine was installed with Ubuntu. img file of a server which is a Virtual Machine running in a KVM environment.

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