Mount the PVS ISO on the Windows 10 virtual machine. Now we have to install the Citrix Provisioning Services components in the Windows 10 desktop from which we will create the vDisk. Sources tell me that the next version of Citix Provisioning Services will be able to work with Gen 2 (generation 2) virtual machines in Hyper-V. Otherwise the virtual machine will not be able to boot using PVS. Make sure that the virtual machine configured in Hyper-V for Windows 10 PVS target is setup as Gen 1 (generation 1) virtual machine, and that the network card is a Legacy network adapter. Citrix Provisioning Services Boot Disk (blog here).All servers and desktops are running as virtual machines.Windows 2012 R2 server with Citrix Provisioning Services 7.8 installed ().

Configure a Target Device to use said vDisk and boot from PVS.Create a Windows 10 Target Device vDisk.I will cover this in another post using Citrix XenDesktop 7.8. For now let’s focus on creating the Windows 10 Target Device vDisk. I will then use this target device disk (vDisk) as a template (golden image) to create multiple target devices running from the same vDisk. In this blog I will show you how to create a Windows 10 target device running from Citrix Provisioning Services. In my recent blog here I showed you how to setup Citrix Provisioning Services 7.8. Citrix Provisioning Services (PVS) is a great way for running your virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI).

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