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Table of Contents
1 Before Getting Started ................................................................................................ 4
1.1 Kaviza VDI-in-box virtual appliance ................................................................... 4
1.2 Hardware Requirements ....................................................................................... 4
2 Import and Configure the Kaviza VDI-in-a-box virtual appliance ............................. 5
2.1 Download the Kaviza VDI-in-a-box appliance .................................................... 5
2.2 Import the kMGR virtual appliance ..................................................................... 6
2.2.1 Configure the Kaviza Grid ............................................................................ 7
3 Create the first Windows 7 base image..................................................................... 12
3.1 Create a Windows 7 VM .................................................................................... 12
3.2 Verify the Windows 7 VM selection criteria ..................................................... 12
3.3 Windows 7 (32-bit or 64 –bit) Pre-import steps ................................................ 12
3.4 Importing the VM into Kaviza ........................................................................... 14
3.5 Five step process to create a published image.................................................... 18
3.5.1 Step 1: Installing the desktop agent ............................................................ 18
3.5.2 Step 2. Editing the draft image .................................................................. 24
3.5.3 Step 3: Preparing the draft image ............................................................... 26
3.5.4 Step 4: Testing the prepared desktop image ............................................... 28
3.5.5 Step 5: Saving the image............................................................................. 29
4 Creating the first template from the published image ............................................... 30
4.1.1 Creating desktops from the template .......................................................... 32
5 Assigning templates to users and groups .................................................................. 33
6 Testing the connection as an end user ....................................................................... 34
6.1 Configuring the end-point device for Kaviza Java Client .................................. 34
6.1.1 Install the latest version of Java JRE on your end point ............................. 34
6.1.2 Install the Citrix Online plug-in for HDX connections .............................. 34
Connecting to the virtual desktop from the Kaviza Java Client ......................... 35
6.1.3 Connecting to the virtual desktop from the browser ................................... 37
