Hi has anyone successfully captured visual studio in a standard appstack. I see posts that suggest to install on the parent image, but none that report that it has worked. I am using appvolumes 2.10 and the appstack works fine if I have it attached to the build/provisioning desktop, but attached to a desktop pool it fails. The build/provisioning desktops are direct clones of the parent image(with all, but the appvolumes agent uninstalled), so the SID is the same. I also know this since another program we use that requires the SID to be the same installs and works as expected.
Just insert these two lines at the end of the startup.bat
"C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 14.0\Common7\IDE\DDConfigCA.exe"
"C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 14.0\Common7\IDE\StorePID.exe" [product key including the dashes] [MPC]
Visual Studio-Edition | MPC |
---|---|
Visual Studio Professional 2013 | 06177 |
Visual Studio Premium 2013 | 06191 |
Visual Studio Ultimate 2013 | 06181 |
Visual Studio Professional 2015 | 07062 |
Visual Studio Enterprise 2015 | 07060 |
Visual Studio Professional 2017 | 08862 |
Visual Studio Enterprise 2017 | 08860 |
We tried packaging the Visual Studio Express 2013 but eventually gave up.
Problem with the free version is that it activates against the name of the machine (or at least that's what I think). Strange thing is that this is the free version and we seem to have a licensing issue with it..
Support told me the community version most likely wouldn't work, but professional should. I need 2015, but I kinda want to try 2013 according to this demo its supposed to work
VMware App Volumes for Developer Desktops Quick Demo Guide - VMware TestDrive Support
Pro should work indeed. It's because you would need to have a valid license key to activate it.
Hello, I have created a working AppStack which includes Visual Studio 2015 Professional. Our license key comes from the MS VLSC and the desktops have a different SID than the provisioning machine. The licensing is done via the startup.bat.
Hi ZellOr,
Can you expand on how you licence via the startup.bat?
Regards,
Martin
Yes, can you please expand little more on your process?
Thank you,
Vkmr.
Just insert these two lines at the end of the startup.bat
"C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 14.0\Common7\IDE\DDConfigCA.exe"
"C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 14.0\Common7\IDE\StorePID.exe" [product key including the dashes] [MPC]
Visual Studio-Edition | MPC |
---|---|
Visual Studio Professional 2013 | 06177 |
Visual Studio Premium 2013 | 06191 |
Visual Studio Ultimate 2013 | 06181 |
Visual Studio Professional 2015 | 07062 |
Visual Studio Enterprise 2015 | 07060 |
Visual Studio Professional 2017 | 08862 |
Visual Studio Enterprise 2017 | 08860 |
Thank you for sharing this ZellOr
Wish I could mark correct 100 times more. I've been trying to find how to do this for awhile, but the commands you found eluded me. I have successfully got an app stack working in one of my test pools. Thank you very much
Thanks ZellOr, worked a treat.
Where is the startup.bat file located after install?
Under "C:\SnapVolumesTemp\MountPoints\<UUID>\". The startup.bat is a part of the app stack and is called when the app stack is dynamically attached, or when system starts up.
Thank you very much. Worked a treat.