Running ESXi on a Raspberry Pi: Installing VMware ESXi on Raspberry Pi 4 to run Linux virtual machines

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11. Virtual Desktop on ESXi

Thomas Fenton¹   and Patrick Kennedy²

(1)

Ridgefield, WA, USA

(2)

Austin, TX, USA

 

Benefits of Virtual Desktops

In this book so far, we have been discussing virtual machines (VMs), but there is an interesting subset of VMs that run desktop OSs instead of server OSs – virtual desktops. In this chapter, we will look at virtual desktops, discuss some of their benefits, and walk through how to create and access them.

I was in a unique position when virtual desktops first came on the scene at VMware. At the time, I was working in the training department ...