Customised OS Template (Windows)
An organisation administrator can create a customised OS template that can be used to provision remote desktops. This is also useful for activating your own licence on your operating system.
These steps are essential for creating an image successfully. Proceed with care.
Important:
About Disk Partition
1. A customised template requires only one disk partition, or two partitions: one EFI/Boot partition and another for the system and data.
2. LVM partitions are not supported, so please do not use them.
3. An incorrect partition scheme will cause the disk auto‑resize and machine naming features to fail.
Windows
1. Install "Red Hat VirtIO SCSI pass‑through controller
When asked "Where do you want to install Windows?", click "Load drivers" and select the appropriate driver. You will then see the storage drive.
2. Initial Setup
Click I don't have internet when asked "Let's connect you to a network"
Click Continue with limited setup when asked "There's more to discover..."
Enter any username, but do not set a password.
3. Install Virtio‑win drivers and guest agents
Once the machine has started and you are logged in, go to CD Drive E and run Virtio-win-guest-tools to install the VirtIO drivers, spice vdagent and qemu guest agent. Click Next and then OK to complete the installation.
4. Disable Hibernate
Open Command Prompt by right‑clicking and selecting "Run as administrator", type "powercfg.exe /hibernate off" and press Enter.
5. Enable Shutdown/Restart Windows 10 without Any Prompts
In Registry Editor, navigate to this key HKEY_USERS\.DEFAULT\Control Panel\Desktop.
Create a new String Value named AutoEndTasks and set its value to 1.
6. Check if the required service exists and set to "Automatic Start"
- Spice-Vdagent : for QEMU VNC clipboard support
- BalloonSerivce: for guest memory usage stats
7. Install and configure TightVNC to allow proper VNC connection
Go to https://www.tightvnc.com/download.php to download the TightVNC installer for Windows.
Install it. When the installation finishes, disable authentication.
Open TightVNC Service Configuration and set it up.
8. Enable Shared‑drive
Shared‑drive allows cloud desktops to share files among themselves during a training course, or between a user's own PC and the cloud desktop. This feature is based on WebDAV file sharing technology. You need to map the hard drive before using it. Refer to the screenshot below for instructions.
9. Shut down your Windows properly
Click the Windows icon in the lower‑left corner, then Power, then Shutdown.
Please Note
To add extra optional features like
- DDWebdav to allow a trainer's content folders to be synchronised to each participant's machine,
- or DDUpload – for easily uploading files to a DaDesktop machine;
Please contact DaDesktop Tech Support.