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View3 on Windows 2008

Mike_Laverick — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 08:34:24 GMT

Is View3 supported on Windows 2008.

Checked the rel notes & the admin pdf but could find no reference to it?

Regards
Mike Laverick
RTFM Education
http://www.rtfm-ed.co.uk
Author of the SRM Book: http://www.lulu.com/content/4343147

Using the Offline Desktop Client inside a VM - Secret Workaround???

Mike_Laverick — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 08:27:03 GMT

I know there's some strings you can peg to the end of an AGENT install to install it to VM/TS box - as if it was a physical machine.

However, there's another restriction - the fact you cannot install the "offline client" into a VM. I would really like to do this for product demonstrations purposes.

Is there a workaround or frig to get this to work?

Regards
Mike Laverick
RTFM Education
http://www.rtfm-ed.co.uk
Author of the SRM Book: http://www.lulu.com/content/4343147

ParentVM not appearing

Mike_Laverick — Fri, 22 May 2009 09:20:14 GMT

I've got a situation where the parentVM has been snapshotted, but not appearing in the pool/linked clone wizard...

Other VMs are appearing (ones that have snapshots) but my parent. Restarting the cs service doesn't seem to resolve this problem...

Regards
Mike Laverick
RTFM Education
http://www.rtfm-ed.co.uk
Author of the SRM Book: http://www.lulu.com/content/4343147

Selling the virtual desktop - MS Licensing

Mike_Laverick — Wed, 20 May 2009 22:09:37 GMT

I'm chatting with an organisation that wants to sell a virtual desktop.

They're unclear about MS model would they use to have the VM pre-authenticated, licensed and ready to use.

Does such a model exist?

Regards
Mike Laverick
RTFM Education
http://www.rtfm-ed.co.uk
Author of the SRM Book: http://www.lulu.com/content/4343147

NDS and View Client

Mike_Laverick — Wed, 20 May 2009 12:12:54 GMT

Anyone trying frig View to work with NDS... Or is this a complete non-starter?

Regards
Mike Laverick
RTFM Education
http://www.rtfm-ed.co.uk
Author of the SRM Book: http://www.lulu.com/content/4343147

VDI Connection Timeout

cookiemonster — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 14:36:25 GMT

Posting on behalf of Kris, here is an excert from the view connection server log... The sunray client receives this error while additional clients are being powered on by VC. We would have expected to see some kind of notification, telling the user that a desktop was being provisioned rather than this error.

11:32:21,537 ERROR <TP-Processor3> FarmImp (SESSION:A2CCFC22CBD9F5F52F596BCAB6677821;683E2FBE3542D297B2B9775E2683FFC7) User domain\user could not be allocated a machine for desktop xptest - reason: All sessions are busy - check for extraneous console logins

VDM / VDI licensing

andrewsp — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 16:15:02 GMT

I know what is causing the problem now - and it was my fault. I'd downloaded the premier version and was trying to enter an enterprise license detail... Downloaded the correct version and it works like it should. I'll go and have a piece of humble pie and thanks for reading.

You are what you eat - who wants to be a lettuce?

Disconnect Cord RDP from XP = BSOD

kimono — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 22:43:51 GMT

Is anybody else using Cord remote desktop app for OSX?

I have an XP VDI session running in ESX 3.5 that is BSOD'ing when I disconnect from it from Cord. The BSOD is at win32.sys...

Anyway I'm doing some more troubleshooting as it happens. The XP VM used to be a VMware Workstation image. Just wondering if anybody else has seen this.

/kimono/

Supress Domain Chooser on VDM

kimono — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 05:16:03 GMT

VMware? Is this something we can do , or get in as a feature ?

/kimono/

VDI infrastructure for 200 XP light users over iSCSI?

mittim12 — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 18:15:48 GMT

I don't see any reason why it wouldn't work. Will you be using the software initiator provided with ESX or using a Hardware Initiator. Have you given any thought to amount of VM's per LUN?

I think each method FC, NFS, and iSCSI has benefits and negatives and through testing you should be able to find the one that will acheive your goals.

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vdm virtual desktop

vmb01 — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 14:21:28 GMT

I'm trying to create a win vista virtual desktop for use in a desktop pool:

I installed a VM with VISTA BUSINESS, i created a template from it, i copied the vista sysprep inside the virtualcenter machine, i deployed a new VM with tis parameters:

Set computer name to virtual machine name. Use DHCP. Join the Active Directory domain automatically. Generate a new SID. Do not log in automatically under Administrator.At the end I've saved the deploy customization,
After I tested it creating a new VM using the saved customization. But I got the error:

"Windows could not parse or process unattend answer file C:\\Windows\Panther\unattend.xml for pass oobeSystem. The answer file is invalid"

Installing an SSL cert on the VDM server.

MLASKOWSKI11 — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 17:38:43 GMT

Hey guys,

We just setup a VDI testing lab and are running into issues trying to install the SSL cer on the VDM server. We are not using a security server or any load balancing but I have opened up ports on the firewall so I can get to the VDI desktops from the outside. Can anybody give the steps on how to install a SSL cert on the VDM server as following the steps in the guide are not working for me. I know ideally I should have a security server but this is just for some basic testing.

Linux live cd with RDP

kplew — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 18:46:16 GMT

Before I re-invent the wheel...

Can anyone pint me in the right direction for a "Thin Client" Knoppix Live cd with RDP. I need to boot to the cd and open rdesktop fullscreen to connect to a vm automagiclly.

Instructions or an ISO would be great.

Thanks

VDI Agent for Terminal Server 2008

hghsdave — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 18:36:52 GMT

Can i put in a request please for an agent for 2008 Terminal server which i can provision to let say a set # of users ?

so i can provision Both Desktops and Terminal Servers.

VMWare Converter

tractng — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 16:32:48 GMT

Guys,

I grab an image from a physical machine and brought it into our virtual environment. I assigned the files and ownership to root, etc. In the past I would be able to get it started.

Windows tried to start but it just ended duroing the windows screen.

One thing I noticed is in the property, it has a maximum size of 40 GB for this machine. My remaining space is 2 GB on that vmware box.

Can this be the cause?

TIA,

tnt

VDM connect through leostream

Winter666 — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 13:21:39 GMT

Hi there,

is anyone familiar connecting an igel thin client ls3210 through leostream using vdm 2.1? If so, please tell me how!

Thank you for your support!

VDM Agent 2.1 and Citrix Password Manager 4.6.093

enterprise Desktop products — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 12:48:35 GMT

Hello,

I have a VDM 2 solution based on Windows XP PRO SP2.
The VDM agent 2.1 in installed on the Virtual Desktop.

When I connect to the Virtual Desktop, the passthrough authentication works fine between the VDM client (installed on my workstation) and the VDM agent (installed on the Virtual Desktop)
i.e. I don´t have to authenticate twice.

Once the Citrix Password Manager Agent 4.6 (build 93) is installed on the Virtual desktops, the passthrough authentication between the Client and the Agent doesn´t work anymore, (ie I have to authenticate twice: once on the broker and a second time on the Virtual Desktop)

I tried to switch the installation order, In this case the passthrough authentication works, but the Password Manager agent doesn´t.
Citrix has said their agent must be installed last and other solution is not supported.
It seems, every product looks at the GinaDLL key and the last installed product wins

At the moment the Password Manager Agent is installed after the VDM agent.
In the registry I have.
HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\Currentversion\Winlogon\GinaDLL a string value of C:\Program Files\Citrix\Metaframe Password Manager\SSOGina\SSOgina.dll
HKLM\Software\Citrix\Metaframe Password Manager\Shell\OrigGinaDLL a string of "C:\vmware\agent\bin\wsgina.dll" (I have modified the default path to avoid spaces)

I have an error message in application event log after a logon process

Event Type: Error
Event Source: Citrix Password Manager
Event Category: Logon
Event ID: 106
Date: 15.07.2008
Time: 13:55:05
User: N/A
Computer: VDX00011
Description:
SSOGINA.dll could not load '"C:\VMware\Agent\\bin\wsgina.dll"'. MSGINA.DLL was loaded instead.

If I suppress the "" and let only C:\vmware\agent\bin\wsgina.dll: I can´t connect, the Virtual Desktop believes it is a direct connection and refused it. (It´s a new behavior of the Agent 2.1)
If I install the Agent 2.0, the connection is not refused, but the authentication passthrough doesn´t work, and I don´t have any error message in the event log

has anyone an idea which could help me to make these two software working together ?
Thanks

Yves.

MSI Error - Another version of this product is already installed

russ9000 — Sun, 13 Jul 2008 20:51:20 GMT

Can anyone help?

Windows Activation while provisioning VMS through VDM

BJaso — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 14:55:45 GMT

The windows template was provided by the lab administrator so I'm not sure but will find out. In the meantime, is there a solution for either scenario?

Adobe Distiller and virtualized fonts

JCunningham53 — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 18:51:34 GMT

I have Adobe Acrobat 8 in my VDI image, and have virtualized MS Office 2007. When I try to create a PDF from a Word file using the Calibri font it fails. Under the preferences for Distiller the font locations it seaches includes c:\windows\fonts, but since Offcie is virturalized that and other fonts don't appear there. Is there a way (a path for example) that I can set in Distiller to include fonts with a virtualized app? (If it was just Office I would just put a copy of the MS fonts into the c:\windows\fonts folder in the image, but I want to virtualize several apps that each have their own set of fonts).

Thanks,

Jeff

VDM clients disconnect, but not logging off

cmorris05 — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 16:13:14 GMT

I am currently evaluating using VDM in our school for student use in labs and as public access. The biggest problem I am having is that the users do not log off, they tend to just disconnect. I have set the "Automatic Logoff after disconnect" to 2 minutes after the disconnect, but it does not log the computers off. I have also tried using the terminal client local computer policy to terminate the session after 5 minutes, and that does not work either. Does anyone have a suggestion?

Thank you

Wyse S10 and VDI

GNeubecker — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 09:03:10 GMT

Hello ejward,

the firmware version is 6.1.0_08!

Desktop Configuration and Endpoint Security

dcap — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 15:04:32 GMT

If I were to use VDI on ESX, is there anything I should be concerned with in the endpoint management side (functions that Virtual Center or ACE can't do)? For example, tradtional endpoint management technologies such as Altiris or Symantec Endpoint Protection work in an identical fashion as they do on physical desktops?

Ace Starter Pack

Loops — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 16:03:14 GMT

We have the Ace Starter Pack. When I create a package and go to install it, it prompt's for a License. I know for the enterprise the serial number is deployed with the Package. But do we have to manually enter the serial number for the starter? If not what might I be doing wrong? Or is there another way around doing this, so I won't have to hand out serial numbers to users to enter.

terminal server vs vdi

williamarrata — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 23:33:31 GMT

I would check out this web site for all your information you need for VDI.

http://www.vmware.com/products/vdi/

Hope that helped.

load balancing using Windows NLB

dingding — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 07:48:10 GMT

i have a VDM server and a replica, now i want to enable load balancing using windows NLB.

is there a step by step guide for this? do i need a third VM for this or i directly config it in this two broker?

i already have vdm20-load-balancing-guide.pdf, but i need a more detail doc, thanks.

how to secure /admin?

xooops — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 21:45:57 GMT

for security reasons we would like secure the VDM Admin Interface (/admin). Can we define some where a IP Range for this interface?

thanks, sven