I’ve talked a bit about Horizon View the possibilities around Linux. However being a Mac user I felt that I shouldn’t neglect OSX in these theoretical talks. How about an OSX RDSH server and hosted desktop scenario, how would we do that?
Well theres a few ways this can actually be done right now, but it in the end it comes down to licensing and third party software.
To encourage use of Mac OS X for VDI, he suggests a possible compromise: to let Leopard clients be virtualized but require users to buy a license for every individual piece of hardware that would.
If you want a simple RDS host on OSX so you can connect with thinclients, then AquaConnect is your friend. It will turn your OSX installation into an RDS host.
- Right-Clock the CD/DVD icon in the bottom right hand side of your running VM. Select IDE Controller (IDE Primary Master) and select the OS X Snow Leopard ISO file we created in step 3 Left click the RED Apple inside the running VM to bring context control back to the VM (note your cursor will disappear). Now press the F5 key on your keyboard.
- Download & full-fil the requirements. Required System. 2GB Memory(RAM) Number of Processors.
If you want a bit of a better experience and bandwidth savings, they have developed their own OSX specific remote display protocol named AAP, to replace RDP. Read more about it here.
If you want to run OSX in a virtual machine, then Apple will officially allow you to do it on Apple hardware. So here is a guide on how to do that with ESXi 5.5U2 patch 3 on a Mac Pro:
I don’t advocate licensing contravention, but for the sake of argument if you wanted to run OSX in a VM on ESXi 5 on non-Apple hardware, you need to do some additional steps. I suggest googling “ESXi 5 Mac OS X Unlocker” for more info.
Now getting back to other methods for providing OSX desktops. You can also perform netboots and run OSX from central locations. Here is some history on OSX netboot.
One thing you may have noticed from the link was the need for OSX Server. Officially that is true, but unofficially, it can be done using an OSX client OS. See the link below for more info:
Here is a more succinct, but less graphical description on how to do it:
So all of these brings you to very similar solutions to what you can achieve with other desktop operating systems for VDI. Wondershare powersuite golden 2012 serial number.
You get session based computing with the ability to use multiple protocols. Mobikin assistant for ios.
You get thinclient boot functionality with local processing capability, or to connect to a server session.
There are load balancers for it as well.
The glue of it is orchestration. How to create the best workflow for automatically spawning instances and adding to the load balancers, then publishing that to a catalog.
I think this can all be done from Horizon View with very little modification to existing solutions and simple adding in the workflow. It will be a few years before we see this (if ever) as a packaged offering, specifically because of licensing not technological concerns.
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1- Download Mac OS
Mac OS is a computer operating system developed by Apple. This is a operating system with beautiful interface, however, to own a the computer of Apple with this operating system, you need to use a lot of money, normally with the double price than that of common computers using Windows operating system. Fortunately, you can experience the Mac OS right on your computer by installing a Mac OS virtual machine on VirtualBox.
Below is the list of Mac OS versions released in recent years:
Mac OS Version | Name | Release Date |
10.10 | Yosemite | June 2014 |
10.11 | El Capitan | September 30, 2015 |
10.12 | Sierra | June 12, 2016 |
10.13 | High Sierra | June 5, 2017 |
In this post, I will show you how to install the Mac OS on VirtualBox. First of all, please download an installer.
After finishing downloading, there is one file:
Extract the file that you have just downloaded in a folder.
2- Create Mac OS Virtual Machine
On the VirtualBox, create a new virtual machine.
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Enter a name for the virtual machine and select a Mac OS version suitable for the Mac OS version that you have downloaded.
Mac OS operating systems need a large amount of RAM to work, You should provide it with about 4GB RAM.
The Mac OS file downloaded by you in the above step is a complete operating system and you can be willing to use without installation. Therefore, on the VirtualBox, you only need to point to this postion of this file.
OK, your Mac OS virtual machine has been created.
You can carry out other configurations for Mac OS, for example, Network configuration, specifying the quantity of Processors,.
3- Configure VBoxManage
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After you create VirtualBox virtual machine, the Meta information of this virtual machine will be found in the folder (Depending on your operating system):
- LINUX (Ubuntu,.):/home/{user}/VirtualBox VMs
- WINDOWS:C:/Users/{user}/VirtualBox VMs
There are some advanced configurations that you can perform via the interface of VirtualBox, and you must carry out it via a command:
Replace 'Your-VM-Name' by your virtual machine name. Your virtual machine name can be found in the 'Setting > General > Basic' (Like the following illustration).
On the Linux (Ubuntu,.), open Terminal windows and CD to go to your Mac OS virtual machine directory. If you use the Windows operating system, open the CMD windows with Administrator privilege and CD to go to the Mac OS virtual machine directory.
Perform the above commands respectively (after having replaced 'Your-VM-Name'):
OK, all the commands have been performed successfully.
4- Start the Mac OS virtual machine
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Press on 'Start' button to start yourMac OS virtual machine:
Enter username/password (to be used to enter your Mac OS virtual machine).
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OK, at this moment, you have installed Mac OS Virtual Machine on VirtualBox successfully.