Ulteo Open Virtual Desktop 2.0 Release Candidate Download

November, 13th 2009: Ulteo OVD 2.0RC1 is ready to download and test! Enjoy the new portal mode (in addition to desktop mode) and many new features that will be detailled on the final release. Choose from an installation mode below and report bugs to report-ovd-bugs(at)ulteo(dot).com.

Note: be sure to have a clean network DNS configuration between your Session Manager and Application Server(s): follow the installation documentation.

The current version is 2.0 RC1

Preview screenshots


OVD new user web portal mode	OVD admin interface

Installation

Thank you for choosing Ulteo Open Virtual Desktop! Please select your downloads below.

You can install the full OVD 2.0 RC product online from your Ubuntu 8.04 server by following the documentation (recommended!):

Documentation: Installation guide on Ubuntu 8.04 read online or download (PDF)

You can also install the OVD on Red Hat Entreprise Linux 5.2, Centos 5.2 and Fedora 10 by following this documentation.

Documentation: Installation guide on RHEL 5.2, Centos 5.2, Fedora 10 read online or download (PDF)

If you want to install the OVD from an ISO, you can download it here.
Note : this ISO DVD will install both the host OS and the OVD software.

ISO: Ulteo OVD ISO download
Note: when you are using a virtualizer, be sure that you have PAE/NX (Physical Address Extension) option enabled

If you wish to install it on another Linux LAMP server, download the installation tarball

Documentation: read online or download (PDF)
Product & source download as a .tar.bz2 (generic install, tested on Red Hat Entreprise Linux)

If you plan to use Windows applications on your Open Virtual Desktop, use the following documentation:

Documentation: Windows applications on OVD and Windows 2003 or Windows 2008 server read online or download (PDF)

Upgrade

If you want to upgrade your current Open Virtual Desktop to a newer version, read this:

Documentation: OVD upgrade from older version read online or download (PDF)

How to test?

When you are testing, you can focus on the following tests, but feel free to do any other test!
Report bugs to report-ovd-bugs(at)ulteo(dot).com - thx!

Windows

Use windows app like MS Office, Photoshop...
Install on Windows Server 2008.

Linux

Install on an RPM-based Linux system (RedHat/Fedora, ...)

Client

Test with "exotic" JVMs like the Ubuntu one, or the MacOS one...
Use the web portal mode.

Administration

Install/remove applications on linux APS.
Use Policy for administration delegation to users.

End-user desktop experience (classic desktop & web portal mode)

Is the desktop or the portal look consistent and everything fits in the screen?
Is the interface responding reasonably fast?
Do I have desktop environment in the language that was choosen for sessions in the administration console?
Do I have applications in the language that was choosen for session in administration console?
Can I launch applications and use them?
If I'm using a non-qwerty keyboard, is the keyboard layout correct? can I type accents and use meta keys in main applications?
Are there startup notifiers for applications?
Can I print from applications?
Can I share applications?
Are main applications (openoffice, gimp, firefox, thunderbird...) up to date with the version there are expected to be?

Known Bugs

Général

WebDAV does not work with Windows Application.
Performance issue with Active Directory for a lot of users.
Esc key is not mapped in the session.
xterm does not use /etc/passwd -> user have access to a console even if the administrator had forbidden it.

Portal mode

No known bug.

Desktop mode

Application startup notifications are missing if the file manager (Thunar) has been used priorly.

Windows agent/daemon

No known bug.

Last edited on 11/19/2009 17:07:55