Step 5 – installing the Virtual Delivery Agent on the master images
Now that you have built a master image of the desktop, you may want to serve it to your users. For this, you need to install the XenDesktop Delivery Agent and Receiver onto that image.
Creating the desktop master images
In this task, we will install the Virtual Delivery Agent (VDA) and Citrix Receiver on the master image for desktops. VDA is the piece of software that allows the desktop VM to communicate with the XenDesktop servers. The Citrix Receiver allows applications to launch seamlessly from the application servers. The following are the steps to create the desktop master images:
Mount the XenDesktop installation media in the DVD drive in XenCenter, then log in to the master image, and launch the install media. Select Virtual Delivery Agent for Windows Desktop OS as shown in the following screenshot:
Select Create a Master Image as shown in the following screenshot:
Install the standard VDA.
Install the Citrix Receiver so...
