[Openstack] Remote access to the windows virtual machine

Brian Schott brian.schott at nimbisservices.com
Thu May 30 21:02:42 UTC 2013


For windows, you could add TCP port 3389 to your security group and enable remote desktop access in windows.  The VNC console access in Horizon is really intended for administrative/management access rather than production usage.

Brian

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Brian Schott, CTO
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On May 30, 2013, at 3:58 PM, "Narayanan, Krishnaprasad" <narayana at uni-mainz.de> wrote:

> Hallo All,
>  
> Currently, I use VNC to access the windows virtual machine deployed in OpenStack. But this gives me a smaller view of the Windows GUI or Desktop. Is there any way from the Horizon GUI to have an enlarged view of the Windows Desktop?
>  
> Can I get any suggestions to connect to the windows virtual machine remotely apart from using VNC?
>  
> Thanks
> Krishnaprasad
> From: Narayanan, Krishnaprasad 
> Sent: Dienstag, 28. Mai 2013 02:42
> To: 'JuanFra Rodriguez Cardoso'
> Cc: openstack at lists.launchpad.net
> Subject: RE: [Openstack] Windows Image 2008 in OpenStack
>  
> Hi JuanFra,
>  
> Thanks for the suggestion regarding the usage of cloudinit for windows instances.
>  
> For all Stackers - I found this URI useful where there is a Windows Server 2012 Evaluation image available for download and it can be directly deployed to OpenStack. I was able to download and deploy the image in our ESSEX cloud and create a VM successfully out of the image.
>  
> Thanks
> Krishnaprasad
> From: JuanFra Rodriguez Cardoso [mailto:juanfra.rodriguez.cardoso at gmail.com] 
> Sent: Montag, 27. Mai 2013 23:41
> To: Narayanan, Krishnaprasad
> Cc: openstack at lists.launchpad.net
> Subject: Re: [Openstack] Windows Image 2008 in OpenStack
>  
> I think a great tool would be Cloudbase's cloud-init for windows instances:
> 
> http://www.cloudbase.it/cloud-init-for-windows-instances/
> 
> Regards,
> ---
> JuanFra
>  
> 
> 2013/5/27 Narayanan, Krishnaprasad <narayana at uni-mainz.de>
> Hallo All,
>  
> Can somebody guide me to create a virtual machine using Windows 2008 image?
>  
> Thanks
> Krishnaprasad
> 
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