Chapter 6. Building and Optimizing the Virtual Desktop OS

Having built the Horizon View infrastructure and its components, in this chapter, we will look at how to create and configure virtual desktop machines, install a desktop operating system on them based on best practice for virtual desktop machines, and then configure that operating system to run at its optimum performance levels.

The steps involved in building the core operating system for a virtual desktop machine are not too dissimilar to the process of building a physical desktop machine. However, there are some additional tasks and software components that we need to install on the operating system to turn it into a true virtual desktop machine that's fit for a Horizon View environment. ...

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