Intelligent Desktop Virtualization (IDV) for Education

ID Date Version Classification
824808 06/26/2025 1.3.13-3.1 Public
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On MTL IDV Build Server

Follow the instructions below to generate the IDV Guest installer ISO file. The script simplifies the IDV Guest setup process.

  1. Before running the following command, make sure your IDV Build Server is set as automatic login for sysadmin user and reboot.
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  3. Update setup_​bsp.sh

  4. $ cd /home/sysadmin/kvm-multios/guest_setup/ubuntu/unattend_ubuntu
    $ nano ./setup_bsp.sh
  5. Add “kernels” to the file as below
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  7. For Ubuntu guest VM automated installation

  8. $ cd /home/sysadmin/kvm-multios
    $ ./guest_setup/ubuntu/ubuntu_setup.sh --force --viewer
  9. Ubuntu Guest VM launch step after installation done

  10. $ cd /home/sysadmin/kvm-multios
    $ ./platform/client/launch_multios.sh -f -d ubuntu -g sriov ubuntu
  11. MTL Ubuntu VM customization steps
    1. Setup ubuntu settings according to instruction shown
    2. Setup an account name “idvuser”, password “Intel@123”
    3. Run below commands at terminal.
    4. Update the MTL IDV Server IP to the correct IP.

      sudo mkdir -p /opt/idv
      cd /opt/idv
      sudo scp sysadmin@<MTL_IDV_Server_IP>:/home/sysadmin/idv_setup/idv-v*.zip .
      sudo unzip idv-v1.3.13.zip
      sudo chmod +x mtl.setup.idvguest.cubic.sh
      sudo ./mtl.setup.idvguest.cubic.sh --http_proxy <http_proxy> --https_proxy <https_proxy> --no_proxy <no_proxy>

      # After mtl.setup.idvguest.cubic.sh completed successfully
      sudo reboot
    5. After installing Guest VM, launch the Terminal application, and execute the instructions below to upload the VM disk image:

    sudo /opt/idv/scripts/update-img.idvserver.sh --path /var/lib/libvirt/images/ubuntu.qcow2 --os ubuntu