Creating a RAS Template

To complete the tasks described in this section, your guest VM must be a domain member and the Parallels RAS Console must be run under an account with administrative privileges on the guest VM (by default, the Domain Admins group has such permissions). This is necessary to perform push installation of the RAS Guest Agent software from the Parallels RAS Console.

If the conditions above cannot be met for any reason, you can try installing the agent software manually by running the main Parallels Remote Application Server installer ( RASInstaller.msi ) in Windows in the VM. Use the Custom installation option and select the RAS Guest Agent component to install.

Note: To create a template from an existing virtual machine, the guest OS (Windows) must be configured to obtain an IP address from a DHCP server.

To create a RAS Template:

1. In the RAS Console, navigate to Farm / Site / VDI Hosts .
2. Select the RAS Templates tab in the right pane.
3. In the Tasks drop-down menu, click Add .
4. In the Guest VM List dialog, select a guest VM from which you would like to create a RAS Template and click OK .
5. In the next step, Parallels RAS will check if the source VM has the RAS Guest Agent installed. If the agent is not installed, click Install and then specify credentials to log in to Windows in the VM. Click Done when finished.
6. In the Guest VM Agent Information dialog, click the Make Template button to create a RAS Template.
7. The source VM will be powered off and a copy of it will be created to become a new RAS Template.

Once the copy of the VM is created, the Create Parallels RAS Template Wizard will automatically open. Read on to learn how to use the wizard to configure a RAS Template .