VDI Primary on VirtualBox

Is it possible to virtualize the VDI primary node similar to the Primary Host Virtualized Configuration but using VirtualBox?
If not, what's the recommend way of creating HA for the Primary(other than the secondaries which don't broker)? If I understand correctly, if the primary goes down there is no node to broker connections which prevents new users from connecting.

That helped but I would still like to know if installing the primary node within VirtualBox instead of esx is supported?

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VDI 3.2.1 Import job timeout window

I am importing a Win7 desktop that will be converted to a template. The import job is timing out at about 98% done! Is there a way to increase the timeout window?

With encouragement and instructions from Thin Guy, i switched to importing a template and that worked fine. In fact, it was observably faster than importing a desktop, not sure why just yet.
Since it was not obvious to me how to create a template, I'll include Thin Guy's instructions here:
(1) Using the VirtualBox GUI to export an appliance will not work since it does not create the required .XML and .VDI files.
(2) The first step is to locate the .XML and .VDI files representing the VirtualBox VM you want to use for a template:
Shut down the VM. In the VirtualBox data directory (depends on platform) you'll find
<path>(.)VirtualBox(\/)Machines
That's where the xml files are. The filename will be <vm name>.xml. Move that to /var/tmp
<path>(.)VirtualBox(\/)VDI
That's where the vdi files (i.e. disk image) are. The filename(s) will be <virtual disk name>.vdi. Move that to /var/tmp
My note: if you have a .vmdk file, it can be converted to a .vdi using VBoxManage clonehd --format VDI <vmdk filename> <vdi filename>. See the man page, or just run VBoxManage and look at the Usage output.
For instance on a mac, these files are under:
/Users/$USER/Library/VirtualBox
On Solaris:
$USER/.VirtualBox
On Windows7
c:\users\username\.virtualbox
Now that the files are in /var/tmp, you need to make sure that they will be visible to VDI Manager. In my case, I am using my VDI Primary as the Virtualization Platform with no VDI sessions. This prevents me from connecting to <hostname>:1800 and doing the import. SO, I have to share out my /var/tmp and do the import from a secondary. A possible workaround is to allow sessions on the VDI Primary but I haven't tried that as yet.
Hope this helps somebody struggling as I was. Many Many Thanks to Thin Guy. He came through for me once again!

Supported Configurations for VDI 3.1

I have a question about the supported configurations for VDI 3.1.
We have a small office where we would have only about 12-15 desktops and would be using the VirtualBox virtualization platform with VDI. The standard vbox configuration recommends 4-5 servers depending on whether you have one of the VirtualBox hosts sharing a machine with the primary VDI node or not. The only other supported configuration is a single host configuration where everything resides on one physical host (and thus one big single point of failure).
My question is can you have a modified version of the single-host configuration for small office environments? For example, I have two X4240 servers with 4x 136GB hard drives each. I know the VDI hosts need to be on three different hosts to satisfy the MySQL clustering configuration. So can I have something like the following on only three boxes?
[Sun VDI Primary] on a small (Dual Core CPU, 2 or 4GB RAM) X86 server
[Sun VDI Secondary + Virtual Box desktop services + Storage services] on X4240 (2x Quad Core CPU, 16GB RAM)
[Sun VDI Secondary + Virtual Box desktop services + Storage services] on X4240 (2x Quad Core CPU, 16GB RAM)
I'm just trying to design a configuration for a small office environment that uses the fewest servers but at the same time is not one big single point of failure as would be the case with a single host configuration.
Any suggestions would be welcomed...
Thanks in advance,
-Ken

Just simply load balancing? Or something more?I often encounter potential customers who'd be interested to buy Sun VDI but they shy away from such thoughts because they realise that the VMware ESX license costs they would have to spend money for will be killing them financially. And they don't see VirtualBox as a "good enough" alternative: It's a "toy", it can't do live migration (e.g. with VMware if they wanted that feature one day they could simply license it and "unlock" it), it's not a bare metal hypervisor ....
So now I could at least counter the point about VirtualBox not being able to do live migrations because now it can do that and there are no additional licenses to pay and no features to unlock. The feature is there from start. So that's good.
But the other issues remain: it's not "bare metal". It would have been nice to have some sort of true "VirtualBox Server" or "VirtualBox for VDI -- Bare Metal Edition". Sun had such a product in the pipelines: "Sun xVM Server" ... but this product was killed after EA #2. Silly move, IMHO. It would have been wiser to finish this product and then have Sun VDI support it as virtualisation backend as well.
Talking of which: Any chance that Sun VDI might one day support the various XEN-based products that exist? If I am not mistaken Sun's "xVM" hypervisor in Solaris/OpenSolaris is in principle just another XEN implementation too. And then there is "Oracle VM" .... so in light of the merger with Oracle I'd say it would make sense if Solaris xVM and Oracle VM/Xen were supported as well. I find it odd that XEN-based products which are widely used in certain circles (e.g. Universities) are being omitted but that there is support for Microsoft Hyper-V which is so brand new and still so lacking in the features department that it is hardly used by anyone except by some paid "early adopters" ...

Not able to back up VDI from web interface

Dear all,
i have setup three servers as VDI primary and two secondaries.
in VDI 3.2.1, you can backup VDI core using backup button available on web interface.
i am unable to backup VDI it is showing error. error is unable to read NFS share.
i specified localhost as server and /var/tmp path to backup but it is not working. also there is one storage pool for virtual box VM's. by default on backup wizard it is selecting storage pool path. but is also failed.
what can be the reason.
thanks

See this thread - NFS share on VBox provider

VDI 3 patch 2 on Solaris10U7 can't import Desktop - failed zfs commands

Hello,
I've installed and tested VDI 3 patch 2 successfully. Everthing worked correctly as expected. All components are installed on Solaris 10 U7 latest patch cluster, two hosts, one serves the VDI service + SunRay + VirtualBox 2.0.10 and the other is working as storage host.
Later I decided to clean up all pools and the Storage Provider. Delete everything exept the Settings for Users Directorys.
Now i wanted to reactivate the Desktop Provider with the same Options ( Virtualbox host, and storage host on different machines)
Everything seem like it works correct but when i try to import a Desktop then it fails after a few seconds.
cacao.0 says:
INFO: thr#38 Starting Job[513]: IMPORT for [pool]
18.09.2009 16:18:29 com.sun.vda.service.vbox.ZfsStorage resizeVolume
SCHWERWIEGEND: thr#38 Command "zfs set volsize=18253610496B tank/07cf8f40-2d27-416d-87dc-7613b7c699ad" failed on host con05!
Error code: 1
18.09.2009 16:18:29 com.sun.vda.service.vbox.Storage copyFileToVolume
SCHWERWIEGEND: thr#38 null
com.sun.vda.service.api.ServiceException: Resizing of volume 07cf8f40-2d27-416d-87dc-7613b7c699ad failed on storage server con05.
at com.sun.vda.service.vbox.ZfsStorage.resizeVolume(Unknown Source)
at com.sun.vda.service.vbox.Storage.copyFileToVolume(Unknown Source)
at com.sun.vda.service.vbox.VBDesktopProvider.importImage(Unknown Source)
at com.sun.vda.service.vbox.VBDesktopProvider.newDesktopInstance(Unknown Source)
at com.sun.vda.service.core.jobs.ImportJob.runJob(Unknown Source)
at com.sun.vda.service.core.jobs.Job.run(Unknown Source)
at java.util.concurrent.Executors$RunnableAdapter.call(Executors.java:417)
at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask$Sync.innerRun(FutureTask.java:269)
at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(FutureTask.java:123)
at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.runTask(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:651)
at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:676)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:595)
and on storage side the zfs history (first command was me, others belong to the vda service):
2009-09-18.11:37:11 zpool create tank c0t0d0s1
2009-09-18.16:16:50 zfs create -s -V 1048576B tank/test0.6129920980714989
2009-09-18.16:16:53 zfs set shareiscsi=off tank/test0.6129920980714989
2009-09-18.16:16:54 zfs destroy tank/test0.6129920980714989
2009-09-18.16:16:57 zfs create -s -V 1048576B tank/test0.6574280129256773
2009-09-18.16:16:59 zfs set shareiscsi=off tank/test0.6574280129256773
2009-09-18.16:17:01 zfs destroy tank/test0.6574280129256773
2009-09-18.16:18:24 zfs create -s -V 7516192768B tank/07cf8f40-2d27-416d-87dc-7613b7c699ad
2009-09-18.16:18:27 zfs set shareiscsi=on tank/07cf8f40-2d27-416d-87dc-7613b7c699ad
2009-09-18.16:18:28 zfs set shareiscsi=off tank/07cf8f40-2d27-416d-87dc-7613b7c699ad
2009-09-18.16:18:31 zfs set shareiscsi=off tank/07cf8f40-2d27-416d-87dc-7613b7c699ad
2009-09-18.16:18:32 zfs destroy -R tank/07cf8f40-2d27-416d-87dc-7613b7c699ad
what is the vda service doing at this point?
I hope someone can take me on the right way..
thanks in advance
daniel

Hey all -
Being that I came across this and was in a hurry, I hacked up a very hacky hack to hack around the problem.
#! /usr/bin/ksh
if echo "$*" | grep 53687090688B >/dev/null 2>&1
then
        logger -p kern.crit "Saw Dumb Stuff - employing workaround"
        eval `echo $* | sed 's/53687090688/53687091200/'`
        EXITCODE=$?
else
        zfs.binary $*
        EXITCODE=$?
fi
exit $EXITCODEI determined the size it was using by using the dtrace toolkit execsnoop script, then calculated the next block size up from there.
I copied /usr/sbin/zfs to /usr/sbin/zfs.binary and replaced /usr/sbin/zfs with my script ONLY WHILST THE IMPORT OPERATION WAS HAPPENING. Clearly, there are a lot of operations the script does bad things to...
It's putrid, and has absolutely no error checking and it should not be used under any circumstances. :)
You can see what it might take to work around the problem though...
Looks like it's a classic off by one error. In my case, the calculated value they try to resize to is 8192 bytes off (one * blocksize) so it fails.
YMMV, but I'm importing as we speak, so it is worth a bash.
NOTE: don't just copy / paste the script if you don't know what you are doing. Just don't. (eg: It'll always return success!)
Cheers,
Nathan.
Edited by: vdidude on Sep 30, 2009 7:39 PM
Edited by: vdidude on Sep 30, 2009 8:47 PM

Running virtual box on different monitors

I have virtual box which I can full screen to create 3 separate desktops. I also have 3 old monitors. What do I need to do in order to get the 3 different desktops on the 3 separate monitors where I can move between them?

Oracle VM is more of an enterprise offering. Not saying that Virtualbox isn't used in the enterprise. It is. Oracle's VDI offering uses Virtualbox. I personally prefer Virutalbox over any of the free host based virtualization offerings out there. Its less intrusive to the host.
Oracle VM supports greater resource allocation and is built to provide enterprise level HA. Yet it requires a greater "footprint" to run. I'd say that Virtualbox is better at the "little things" and Oracle VM is better at the "big things". I have noticed that Virtualbox is a little flacky with 2012 Server virtualization. I've even played around with the new 2012 free Hypervisor offering on Virtualbox and its hit and miss. Crashes more times than not. Not to mention that the new Microsoft 2012 Hypervisor is the biggest convoluted mess I've ever seen. It works okay in a Domain environment but working in a workgroup environment... its about useless. You even have to have a Windows 8 client or a windows 2012 server to load and run the management tools for 2012 Hypervisor. Even when you get them working.... (which like to have drove me crazy)... they really are simplistic to say the least.

How can I convert an OVM vm (.img) to VDI (virtualbox)?

Hi,
how can I convert an OVM vm (.img) to VDI (virtualbox)?
Is .img format a raw image? If yes can I use "VBoxManage convertdd" to convert from .img to vdi?
tnx & regards,
S.

Hi,
"VBoxManage convertdd" solved.
Regards,
S.

@SUN: Sun VirtualBox 3.1 + VM "Teleportation" ... for VDI 3.1 too?

I just checked my Facebook account and there I got the announcement from Sun that VirtualBox 3.1 was released today and that it has an exciting new feature: VM "Teleportation". So running VM's can be live migrated without interruption between VirtualBox servers. Awesome!
BUT:
Will we get a special VDI version too? If anything then "Teleportation" is a must-have feature for Sun VDI. Will there be a patch that adds this new VirtualBox version to VDI ...?

Just simply load balancing? Or something more?I often encounter potential customers who'd be interested to buy Sun VDI but they shy away from such thoughts because they realise that the VMware ESX license costs they would have to spend money for will be killing them financially. And they don't see VirtualBox as a "good enough" alternative: It's a "toy", it can't do live migration (e.g. with VMware if they wanted that feature one day they could simply license it and "unlock" it), it's not a bare metal hypervisor ....
So now I could at least counter the point about VirtualBox not being able to do live migrations because now it can do that and there are no additional licenses to pay and no features to unlock. The feature is there from start. So that's good.
But the other issues remain: it's not "bare metal". It would have been nice to have some sort of true "VirtualBox Server" or "VirtualBox for VDI -- Bare Metal Edition". Sun had such a product in the pipelines: "Sun xVM Server" ... but this product was killed after EA #2. Silly move, IMHO. It would have been wiser to finish this product and then have Sun VDI support it as virtualisation backend as well.
Talking of which: Any chance that Sun VDI might one day support the various XEN-based products that exist? If I am not mistaken Sun's "xVM" hypervisor in Solaris/OpenSolaris is in principle just another XEN implementation too. And then there is "Oracle VM" .... so in light of the merger with Oracle I'd say it would make sense if Solaris xVM and Oracle VM/Xen were supported as well. I find it odd that XEN-based products which are widely used in certain circles (e.g. Universities) are being omitted but that there is support for Microsoft Hyper-V which is so brand new and still so lacking in the features department that it is hardly used by anyone except by some paid "early adopters" ...

Importing Virtualbox VM into pool fails with any errors VDI 3.0

I'm at the last stage of importing my VM's into mypool which I created and the importing fails with Job failed. I do not have large space /var/tmp and have setup a link to the VM's
FINER: THROW
com.sun.vda.service.api.ServiceException: File copy failed for server 192.168.0.25.
at com.sun.vda.service.vbox.Storage.copyFileToVolume(Storage.java:396)
at com.sun.vda.service.vbox.VBDesktopProvider.importImage(VBDesktopProvider.java:1300)
at com.sun.vda.service.vbox.VBDesktopProvider.newDesktopInstance(VBDesktopProvider.java:225)
at com.sun.vda.service.core.jobs.ImportJob.runJob(ImportJob.java:49)
at com.sun.vda.service.core.jobs.Job.run(Job.java:122)
at java.util.concurrent.Executors$RunnableAdapter.call(Executors.java:417)
at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask$Sync.innerRun(FutureTask.java:269)
at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(FutureTask.java:123)
at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.runTask(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:650)
at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:675)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:595)
Caused by: java.io.FileNotFoundException: (No such file or directory)
at java.io.RandomAccessFile.open(Native Method)
at java.io.RandomAccessFile.<init>(RandomAccessFile.java:212)
at com.sun.vda.service.vbox.Storage.copy(Storage.java:773)
at com.sun.vda.service.vbox.Storage.copyFileToVolume(Storage.java:386)
... 10 more
Apr 4, 2009 1:40:15 PM com.sun.vda.service.persistence.PersistentJob commit

Thomas,
Thanks for your reply. I have finished the VDI 3.0 Install and everything works fine now. For some reason even though the Storage OS was opensolaris 2008.11 but running on a VM it did not like that and once I dedicated a seperate box, then things worked fine. I just redid the install of the VM to try if it goes through and this time it works well. So my setup as of now has everything running on a ASUS MBD whitebox with Open Solaris running as a VM in Virtual Box and acting as a ZFS Storage (Virtualbox is running inside the GA release. However I would like to run everything in one OS which would be the GA. I tried setting up the iSCSI interface in GA and it did not work. Any ideas on how I can make this work on just one platform ?

Solaris 10 Oracle VDI VirtualBox 3.2 USB support

Dear folks,
This my first time to the forum, since we are in the progress of deploying 240+ thin clients using Oracle VDI. I was piloting the project in a desktop machines with Sunray 3i. I installed Solaris 10 9/10 and Oracle VDI 3.2.1. However, while I was creating WinXP VM in Virtualbox 3.2 -the one which came with Oracle VDI 3.2- I got that error about being unable to connect to USB proxy server. Eventually this error leads to that all my VMs doesn't support USB redirection. So USB flash disk drive doesn't work in my Sunray 3i. Reading VirtualBox documentation Installing on Solaris hosts , I came across this info "*This does not apply to Solaris 10 hosts due to lack of USB support.*" Is this real?
Does this mean I can't redirect USB hardware to my VMs in the server via Sunray 3i? If this is true, what is the workaround for this problem?
Please advise me. . .

Other than the documentation stating it doesn't work, in practice have you tested it to not work also?
We have two Solaris 10u5 machines running Vbox 3.2.12 and they pass through USB fine with our Sun Ray 3's (not 3i's but that shouldn't matter).
Did you enable USB passthrough in the VDI core by selecting the desktop pool and going to the Settings -> Sun Ray RDP Settings? Theres checkboxes to enable USB/smartcard pass through.

VDI3: what happens when the Primary VDI core fails?

A potential customer asked me this and I did not really know how to answer the question ... sorry if this was asked before. So here we go:
What happens when and if the Primary VDI core fails? Will the entire VDI3 setup go down? Will running sessions be lost? And how do you fix that?
I found this page:
http://wikis.sun.com/display/VDI3/MySQL+Cluster+Reconfiguration+Scenarios
So I assume the "Non-VDI host ==> Primary Management Host" scenario is what would need to be done?
http://wikis.sun.com/display/VDI3/MySQL+Cluster+Reconfiguration+Scenarios#MySQLClusterReconfigurationScenarios-NonVdiToPrimary
If this is correct then this would answer the "how do you fix that?" part. OK then.
But still I'd welcome if anyone could explain what exactly would happen when and if a Primary VDI core fails. The customer's opinion on this is that they are a "single point of failure" because the Primary VDI host is not redundant (as opposed to the 2 x Secondary VDI cores) ... So, is this assumption correct or not?
Thanks in advance.

Hi,
Assuming you have 3 VDI core hosts. One of them is the primary. And the primary goes down. So what happens then:
* The underlying database is still running on the remaining hosts
* All desktop sessions are still running on the remaining hosts
* New session requests will be handled by the remaining hosts.
* All desktops are still running on the virtualization hosts.
So in essence, your VDI cluster is still healthy. The operation is just impacted in this way:
* You can't add new VDI core hosts
* You can't change the configuration of the Sun Ray server failover group
* A failure of another VDI core host (data node) will result into a complete outage of the underlying database
You should bring up the primary again as soon as possible in order to gain failover capabilities again.
-Dirk

Can't start any VirtualBox machines in VDI 3.1

I have set up a VDI 3.1 demo setup on one box (quad-Xeon, 4 GB ram), but I am having trouble with starting a VirtualBox machine on it. When ever I go to Pools -> 'pool' -> Desktop, and try to start the machine I have made on my desktop machine and imported, I get the following error messages in /var/cacao/instances/default/logs/cacao.0:
Dec 2, 2009 5:41:39 PM com.sun.vda.service.core.jobs.Job run
INFO: thr#19 Starting Job[35]: DESKTOP_ACTION for [pool, DESKTOP_UUID: 1]
Dec 2, 2009 5:41:39 PM com.sun.vda.service.core.jobs.Job run
INFO: thr#20 Starting Job[36]: START_VB_DESKTOP for [pool]
Dec 2, 2009 5:41:43 PM com.sun.vda.service.vbox.VBDesktop startDesktop
WARNING: thr#20 Desktop Kubuntu 9.10 failed to start, probably due to failed iSCSI login, retrying...
Dec 2, 2009 5:41:46 PM com.sun.vda.service.vbox.VBDesktop startDesktop
WARNING: thr#20 Desktop Kubuntu 9.10 failed to start, probably due to failed iSCSI login, retrying...
Dec 2, 2009 5:41:48 PM com.sun.vda.service.vbox.VBDesktop startDesktop
WARNING: thr#20 Desktop Kubuntu 9.10 failed to start, probably due to failed iSCSI login, retrying...
Dec 2, 2009 5:41:52 PM com.sun.vda.service.core.jobs.StartVBDesktopJob runJob
WARNING: thr#20 Could not start desktop 'Kubuntu 9.10'!
com.sun.vda.service.api.ServiceException: The desktop Kubuntu 9.10 could not be started on host 127.0.0.1.
        at com.sun.vda.service.vbox.VBDesktop.startDesktop(Unknown Source)
        at com.sun.vda.service.core.jobs.StartVBDesktopJob.startDesktop(Unknown Source)
        at com.sun.vda.service.core.jobs.StartVBDesktopJob.registerAndStartDesktop(Unknown Source)
        at com.sun.vda.service.core.jobs.StartVBDesktopJob.runJob(Unknown Source)
        at com.sun.vda.service.core.jobs.Job.run(Unknown Source)
        at java.util.concurrent.Executors$RunnableAdapter.call(Executors.java:417)
        at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask$Sync.innerRun(FutureTask.java:269)
        at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(FutureTask.java:123)
        at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.runTask(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:651)
        at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:676)
        at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:595)
Caused by: com.sun.vda.service.api.ServiceException: The desktop Kubuntu 9.10 could not be started on host 127.0.0.1. Final state is 'poweredOff'.
        ... 11 moreDoes anybody have any hints on how I move on from here?

I tried with 6 GB RAM in the machine instead, when the machine was using 1.97 GB (according to the VDI interface), and it still comes out with the same error messages.
How about those iSCSI error messages I am getting? "Desktop Kubuntu 9.10 failed to start, probably due to failed iSCSI login, retrying..."
There shouldn't be anything else I should do besides activating the iscsitgtd service, is there?
I can see that the ZFS file system with the VM is shared through iSCSI:
root@vdi:~# iscsitadm list target -v
Target: rpool/8c09da3f-61f9-4250-b2b3-26a3308db734
    iSCSI Name: iqn.1986-03.com.sun:02:dc3528c9-ddef-caa6-feb6-e508feca093a
    Alias: rpool/8c09da3f-61f9-4250-b2b3-26a3308db734
    Connections: 0
    ACL list:
    TPGT list:
    LUN information:
        LUN: 0
            GUID: 600144f04b1698990000304892d5f800
            VID: SUN
            PID: SOLARIS
            Type: disk
            Size:   20G
            Backing store: /dev/zvol/rdsk/rpool/8c09da3f-61f9-4250-b2b3-26a3308db734
            Status: onlineShould I see it be mounted somewhere?
Also, 'iscsiadm list discovery' shows me none of the discovery methods are enabled, but at least one of them should in order for the server to mount iSCSI, to my knowledge, shouldn't it?

No autologin to windows desktop which runs on virtualbox for vdi

hi
it's not possible to autologin to a windows desktop if the machine is hosted on a virtualbox host
i only see the "press ctrl alt delete" window
if i now press ctrl alt delete and provide username, password and select the domain i'm logged in so it looks like vdi dont send the credentials to this machines
my test:
open mstsc
fill username, password and domain and connect to the vdi host
(the same test works if the machine is hosted on vmware)
can you help me to solve this issue?
thanks in advance
br
Andre

hi
may be you are right i tried to change vrdp to rdp and had to change nat to host networking before under the pool settings within vdi
but this expect the virtual machine is connected to host networking instead of nat on the virtualbox cause all clone jobs fails?
if i change the windows template machine on the virtualbox from nat to host interface (network name is greyed out) and select the physical network interface it fails to start the machine
"Failed to open/create the internal network "HostInterfaceNetworking-nge0 Nvicida Gigabit Ethernet - VBox status code: -3700 (VERR_SUPDRV_COMPONENT_NOT_FOUND)
is it true that i have to create a bridge in the virtualbox solaris (not opensolaris) and build scripts which are running during power on / off from virtual machines to solve this issue?
br
Andre

VDI: how to assign printers to pools? (Virtualbox)

In VDI 3.2x and 3.3 there are per-pool-settings by which you can define that certain printers should show up in the desktop VM's. However ... I am not really sure about a few things here. The only explanation given in the wiki and in the documentation is that the syntax is:
<printer>=[<driver>]
(URL here: http://wikis.sun.com/display/VDI3dot2/Desktop+Pool+Management+%28All+Topics%29 )
OK, but how exactly am I supposed to do this?
The print-server at customer's site is a Windows 2008 server, so printer queues have a SMB-style notation, e.g. \\Printer-Server\PR08, \\Printer-Server\PR09, and so on ... how can I tell pool A to use \\Printer-Server\PR09 and e.g. pool B to use \\Printer-Server\PR32 ...? (All desktop VM's are Windows 7, 32-bit). Do I need to configure those Windows printer queues locally on the VDI cores?
Or how exactly is this done? Can someone please post an example?

This redirection refers to local printer queues. So you would have to first set these up on the Ray or VDI server (printmgr is your friend here) and then you can use this to redirect into the guest machines.
Bjoern

Mounting vdi files. Usefull for VirtualBox users.

I found a little gem (I think so at least): a couple of programs to mount vdi files, the hard drives of Sun VirtualMachine.
At the moment the program does not mount at all if the image is not of fixed size: if there is interest I might change it so it mounts read only.
I found it extremely useful to put files inside the hard drives.
Here is the package.
Comments welcome.

I keep my vdi images on a separate partition along with other shared documents and run them on both i686 and x86_64 distributions. So if this is what you mean, the answer is 'yes'.
Edit: All my virtual systems are 32 bit.
Last edited by bohoomil (2012-01-21 16:41:54)

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