Custom OS Template (Windows)
Organisation admins can build a custom OS template for deploying remote desktops in Indonesia. It also lets you activate your own license on the operating system.
Follow these steps carefully – they're essential for creating the image successfully.
Important:
About Disk Partition
1. Your custom template should have only a single disk partition, or two at most: an EFI/boot partition and a combined system and data partition.
2. LVM partitions aren't supported – please avoid them.
3. An incorrect partition layout will break the automatic disk resizing and machine naming features.
Windows
1. Install "Red Hat VirtIO SCSI pass-through controller
When the installer asks "Where do you want to install Windows?", click "Load drivers" and pick the correct driver. The storage drive will then appear.
2. Initial Setup
On the network screen, select I don't have internet when prompted with "Let's connect you to a network".
When you see "There's more to discover...", click Continue with limited setup.
Enter any username but leave the password blank.
3. Install Virtio-win drivers and guest agents
Once the machine has started and you're logged in, open CD Drive E and run Virtio-win-guest-tools. This installs the virtio drivers along with spice vdagent and qemu guest agent. Just follow the prompts to finish.
4. Disable Hibernate
Launch Command Prompt as administrator (right‑click and choose "Run as administrator"), then type "powercfg.exe /hibernate off" and press Enter.
5. Enable Shutdown/Restart Windows 10 without Any Prompts
Open the registry editor and navigate to 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 support of qemu vnc clipboard
- BalloonSerivce: for guest memory usage stats
7. Install and configure Tightvnc to allow proper VNC connection
Download the TightVNC installer for Windows from https://www.tightvnc.com/download.php.
Run the installer and, when prompted, disable authentication.
Open "TightVNC service configuration" and fine‑tune the settings.
8. Enable Shared-drive
The Shared‑drive feature lets cloud desktops exchange files during training sessions, or between a user's own PC and the cloud desktop. It relies on WebDAV technology. Before using it, map the drive – the screenshot below shows how.
9. Shutdown your Windows properly
Click the Windows icon in the bottom‑left corner, then select Power > Shut down.
Please Note
To add extra optional features such as
- DDWebdav – syncs a trainer's content folders to each participant's machine,
- or DDUpload – makes uploading files directly to a DaDesktop machine simple;
Please contact DaDesktop Tech Support.