

The following steps describe how to assign an existing virtual machine to a user. Personal virtual desktops are specific virtual machines hosted on an RD Virtualization Host server that have been assigned to a user account in Active Directory. On the Installation Results page, review the results, and click Close. On the Confirm Installation Selections page, review the selections made, and then click Install.ġ0. If Hyper-V is not installed, it will be installed automatically by the installation wizard.ĩ. This is the only role service that is being installed at this time. Now, on the Select Role Services page, only select the Remote Desktop Virtualization Host role service. On the Remote Desktop Services page, click Next.Ĩ. On the Select Server Roles page, select the Remote Desktop Services role, and click Nextħ. After the Add Roles Wizard loads, click Next.Ħ. In the Roles Summary section, click the Add Roles task.ĥ. In the Run dialog box, type in ServerManager.msc and click OK.Ĥ.

Log on to the desired Hyper-V server that will be hosting the RD Virtualization Host role service with local administrator privileges.ģ. Installing the RD Virtualization Host Role Serviceġ. Here’s a snippit out of my book “Windows Server 2008 R2 Unleashed” where I cover the installation and configuration of the Virtual Desktop Infrastructure components in RDS and Hyper-V…

Effectively the VDI stuff is built on top of Windows 2008 R2 RDS and Hyper-V

I’d highly suggest you look at the 2 part article I wrote on Remote Desktop Services “Windows 2008 R2 Remote Desktop Services (RDS) (1 of 2) - Understanding and Deploying RDS” and “Windows 2008 R2 Remote Desktop Services (RDS) (2 of 2) - Deploying RDS Web Access and RDS RemoteApp” where I cover the Remote Desktop Service in Windows Server 2008 R2. What I’m cover in this posting is HOW to install it VDI and make it work. So in Part 1 of 2 of this article on VDI titled “Microsoft’s Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) (Part 1 of 2)” where I covered the Understanding Where VDI Fits in the Enterprise I gave a background of VDI and where we’ve found it fitting in.
