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Nexus VDI

Introduction

Nexus VDI is a VDI (Virtual Desktop Infrastructure) written from scratch in Go and based on Linux/KVM + QEMU.

Components

Nexus VDI is divided into two components:

nexus-server

  • Documentation about the inner workings of nexus-server is described here
  • The server program (backend) that runs on a server
  • Exposes a REST API to manage users, VMs and templates

nexus client

  • Documentation on how to use nexus clients is described here
  • The client or end-user program to manage users, VMs and templates
  • The client uses REST messages to communicate with nexus-server
  • The client can be run from anywhere (locally or remotely) as long as it can communicate with nexus-server
  • Three clients have been developed so far:
    • nexush
      • interactive command line client, similar to a shell
      • currently, the most user-friendly way to interact with nexus-server
      • not suited to scripting or automated operations
    • nexus-cli
      • provides the same features and commands syntax as nexush
      • by opposition to nexush, it is well suited to scripting and automated operations
    • nexus-exam
      • basic graphical application used by students during live exams to connect to their running VMs
  • Clients need the remote-viewer third party application in order to view and interact with VMs' desktops

Build and installation

This documentation describes how to:

  • build, install and run nexus-server for development and production
  • build and run nexus clients