Hopefully, someone can clarify this a bit for me…

From the redhat instructions…

“In principle, virtual machines in a pool are started when taken by a user, and shut down when the user is finished. However, virtual machine pools can also contain pre-started virtual machines. Pre-started virtual machines are kept in an up state, and remain idle until they are taken by a user. This allows users to start using such virtual machines immediately, but these virtual machines will consume system resources even while not in use due to being idle.”

How do users request “take” virtual machines from the pool? For example with a windows machine where we want them to remote desktop into it using RDP? Or does this have to happen through some other portal? Do we have to give users access to the VM Portal?

Cheers,

Chris.