If you need more help or detailed explenation, there is a sample file /thinstation/build/ built in.What is Thinstation? Thinstation is a basic and small, but very powerful, Open Source thin client operating system supporting all major connectivity protocols: Citrix ICA, Redhat Spice, NoMachine NX, 2X ThinClient, Microsoft Windows terminal services (RDP, via RDesktop/FreeRDP), VMWare Horizon View, Cendio ThinLinc, Tarantella, X, telnet, tn5250, VMS terminal and SSH. This tells the System which kind of packge it should start. You can start multiple sessions with different applications.

For my understanding the Session 0 is the System GUI Session. Note the '#' after 'Session_'? Replace it with a number higher then 0. Im not going to explain the settings or their values, they are different from package to package but there are some hints I would like to give you #SESSION_#_TITLE='VDI' #SESSION_#_VMVIEW_REDIRECT2='printer:usb='HP LaserJet 4'' #SESSION_#_VMVIEW_REDIRECT1='disk:usb=/mnt/usbdevice/sda1' #SESSION_#_VMVIEW_BACKGROUND=/etc/background.jpg # Default server to connect to if none specified # Connect to server without waiting for the user to click connect You can find the file here /thinstation/build/packages/vmviewpcoip/build/conf/50vmviewpcoip # VMWare View Global Options

Which Applications should autostart? Which server will be connected? Which Username will be used.there are various options you can define in .Īs example there is a file with all the possible configs for the Horizon View Client. This is the place to directly configure the final Thinstation OS. The source urls are defined in this file. If you build the image new software binaries will be downloaded. So we can adjust the bootimages parameter. I am only going to use the system image for pxe. Put your background images to /thinstation/build/backgrounds and adjust this parameter Removed all unnecessary tools and added the VMware Horizon View Client with PCOIP support.

PackagesĮdit this section to add or remove software to the image. Can be found under /thinstation/build/nfĬomment the line to exclude it from the final image. I will not talk about all of the config options. first edit the config files to adjust the image for your needs. If we change the config we will have to start the build process again to update our 'image'. This is how you can start the build process, this will create the image. git clone -depth 1 -b master Ĭhange to the thinstation folder and run the setup-chroot script. Use the latest stable branch for your productive environment. This will automatically create the folder thinstation and download all the fancy code into it. Instead of the Devstation I will use my own debian linux vm.

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