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2012 R2 remote desktop services / Virtual

fredmaine — Wed, 25 Mar 2015 17:48:46 GMT

I am working on a client's virtual Windows 2012 R2 server, virtualized in Citrix XenCenter 6.

I am trying to add the role for Remote Desktop Services. I successfully got it set up for Session Host (RDSH) and remote users can get a Win 2012 desktop, but the client wants users to get a virtual Windows 7 desktop.

So - I re-installed the role, chose Virtual Desktop (RDVH) deployment.

Setup goes fine except I'm not sure where to get the Windows 7 from. Client has a Windows 7 template set up already under XenCenter, I was hoping to point to it, but it doesn't show on the pick-list while installing the role.

Can someone point me to some docs, or give an overview of how handing out Windows 7 desktops would normally be done?

As an aside, can a virtual Windows 2012 server host virtual desktops, anyway?

Thanks in advance.

Fred

Re: 2012 R2 remote desktop services / Virtual

fredmaine — Wed, 01 Apr 2015 14:15:44 GMT

To add to this; I've found documentation saying the virtual desktop is set up in HyperV manager, first. The HyperV role wasn't installed, but I can't install HyperV, because Windows says there's a hypervisor already running.

The one already running must be XenCenter, which was used to virtualize the 2012 R2 server in the first place.

So; is it true then that a -virtual- Win 2012 R2 server with Remote Desktop Services installed, can't be used for providing virtual desktops (RDVH)?

Re: 2012 R2 remote desktop services / Virtual

Schild André — Wed, 27 May 2015 16:33:12 GMT

Yes,

usually you can only use one layer of virtualisation.

In your case the XEN layer.

André