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Linked Clones with Vista 64-bit posted: Mar 6, 2009 10:57 AM

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jaygriffin
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Has anyone out there got Linked Clones to work with Vista 64-bit? I understand it is not supported, but I thought I would I checked. I have setup linked clones for Windows XP. However, for some reason, it doesn't see my snapshots for Vista 64. Just wondered if anyone found a trick to make this work ?????

I saw discussion about Windows 7. Someone mentioned they upgraded to the latest View Manager. I tried that and it did not help.

Thanks for any suggestions!

Re: Linked Clones with Vista 64-bit

1. Mar 8, 2009 6:32 AM in response to: jaygriffin
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Christoph Dom…
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64-Bit OS are currently not supported as a View agent. Please check the View admin guide.

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2. Mar 9, 2009 6:29 AM in response to: Christoph Dom…
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jaygriffin
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I understand that. But this is a forum and discussions are not limited to supported items. As mentioned in my post, I have seen Windows 7 working -- that is not supported. So I am curious if anyone has been able to get Vista 64-bit working, or not.

Re: Linked Clones with Vista 64-bit

3. Mar 27, 2009 1:51 PM in response to: jaygriffin
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CWedge@Amsa
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I'll be testing this in a few....

Make sure when you install the view agents you DO NOT install USB Support. As it's a driver and You cannot install 32-bit drivers in a 64 bit system even with emulation.

Re: Linked Clones with Vista 64-bit

4. Mar 28, 2009 2:14 AM in response to: jaygriffin
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for not supported read will not install, unless you go into the MSI and disable the version checking you will not get it View Agent to run on a 64bit guest, also once past this remember not to install the USB drivers, this from my point of view precludes the point of wasting my time on the issue. if you cannot get the enhanced USB support, what is the production use???? Just curoius.

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Re: Linked Clones with Vista 64-bit

5. Mar 30, 2009 5:33 AM in response to: tom howarth
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jaygriffin
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Actually Tom that is not true. It will install fine just by running the install normally as long as you do not install the USB support. Which is fine because I don't need USB support.

Kind of ridiculous to assume that people don't have uses for virtual machines without USB support, so don't waste your time. Allow others that may have tested / tried this to respond.

Re: Linked Clones with Vista 64-bit

6. Mar 30, 2009 9:30 AM in response to: jaygriffin
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First be a little more circumspect in your responses, your tone is quite aggressive, second when I orignally tested this it would not install on a 64 bit Vista, as it has version checking. I have not bothered to check again as I have no longer got the requriement for running a 64bit Desktop Operating system.

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Re: Linked Clones with Vista 64-bit

7. Mar 30, 2009 9:53 AM in response to: tom howarth
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jaygriffin
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If there is anyone out there who has tried this, I am interested in hearing about your experience. I have no problem getting the view Manager client to install on the 64-bit workstation. I have installed it many times -- just turn off the USB support.

I powered down the virtual workstation and I created a snapshot.

When I go through the View Administrator wizard to add a linked-clone pool, the snapshot does not show up. I did a 32-bit Windows XP workstation just to make sure I didn't have a problem unrelated to the 64-bit OS. The Windows XP snapshot showed up fine. But I can't see any Vista-64 snapshots.

Is there anyone out there who has tried this? Did you get it to work?

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