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ODU Computer Science | Virtual Desktop Lab User’s Guide

The Computer Science Department is providing a new VDI solution which aims to be a replacement for VCLab. Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) allows ODU faculty and remote students to access lab machine images over their network. Our users can interact with the remote operating system and its applications as if they were running locally.

The new Virtual Desktop Lab will feature major improvements from VClab: Up-to-date operating system Up-to-date applications Modern look and feel HTML5 web browsers as a VDI client

This document is divided into the following sections

• Accessing Virtual Desktop Lab from a web browser
• Accessing Virtual Desktop Lab with a native RDP client

Accessing VDLab from Web Browser

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1. Navigate to [1]
2. At the login screen, provide your CS credentials