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I want to try Pulse out

Pulse requirements

Pulse clients

Pulse Remote desktop


I want to try Pulse out

Where can I start?

Definitely here! First read the FAQs.

Then install the latest stable Debian (on a VM or physical machine) and head to git.siveo.net

Where can I get help?


Pulse requirements

Can Pulse run on virtual machines or physical servers?

Pulse runs on virtual machines or physical servers.

On which hypervisors can Pulse run?

Pulse runs on any hypervisor (KVM, VMware vSphere / ESXi, Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization, Microsoft Windows Server, Xen)

If you want to try Pulse out on your own PC, you can use VirtualBox.

Minimum RAM memory to run Pulse?

Pulse needs a minimum of 1G of RAM.


Pulse clients

Which type of client Pulse handles?

Pulse support

  • all different flavor of Windows (from Windows 2000 to Windows 10)
  • all different flavor of Linux, Unix
  • all different flavor of MacOS X

Pulse Remote desktop

How change the listening port?

  • Add the following configuration to /var/lib/pulse2/clients/win32/pulse2-win32-agents-installer.nsi.in next to Create installation command line

; SET ALTERNATIVE VNC PORT 5999
StrCpy $0 '$0 SET_RFBPORT=1 VALUE_OF_RFBPORT=5999'

  • Generate new agent

cd /var/lib/pulse2/clients/win32/
./generate-agent-pack.sh

  • Add the following configuration to /etc/mmc/plugins/msc.ini.local

[web]
# the port to use to connect to a VNC
# vnc_port = 5900
vnc_port = 5999