[Openstack] Openstack and VDI

Jacob Godin jacobgodin at gmail.com
Wed Oct 30 22:22:02 UTC 2013


I believe Stephane was referring to Virtual Desktop? If so, I am not
familiar with any, however a Google search shows https://www.ulteo.com/home/ as
a potential solution (nothing OpenStack specific, but I don't know if it
needs to be?).

Here's a session from one of the summits:
http://www.openstack.org/summit/san-diego-2012/openstack-summit-sessions/presentation/cloudifying-virtual-desktops-how-openstack-can-reduce-the-cost-and-complexity-of-virtual-desktops


On Wed, Oct 30, 2013 at 7:13 PM, Anne Gentle <anne at openstack.org> wrote:

> From http://docs.openstack.org/image-guide/content/ch_introduction.html
>
> "VirtualBox uses the VDI (Virtual Disk Image) format for image files. None
> of the OpenStack Compute hypervisors support VDI directly, so you will need
> to convert these files to a different format to use them with OpenStack."
>
>
> You'll find instructions for conversion in the guide linked above.
> Anne
>
>
> On Wed, Oct 30, 2013 at 4:51 PM, Stephane EVEILLARD <
> stephane.eveillard at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi
>>
>> I'm currently looking for VDI implementation with openstack, but I just
>> can't find open source
>> implementation . Is there any open source based VDI or will it appear in
>> future release ?
>>
>> thanks in advance
>>
>> --
>> Stéphane EVEILLARD
>> Responsable Système et Développement IBS NETWORK
>> Coordinateur Version Française Openstack
>>
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