I have workstation installed and horizon connection server with a Windows XP VM on a Server 2008 R2 computer.
On my Windows 8.1 laptop, I used Horizon View and I can hear audio just fine, and use everything but the 3D! I installed Diablo and within Workstation I can execute the game, etc. but when I log in remotely with View it says there is no 3d cards? I checked the Desktop Pools in the admin area and there is no option for 3D support. Do I need an ESXi server to achieve this?
The server computer has a basic desktop 3d card, nothing special.
View does have a software version of 3D rendering that is supported on Windows 7 virtual machines running a minimum of HW version 8. I believe you also have to be on vSphere 5.0 or higher. It would be enabled in the pool area and you would need to make PCOIP the default protocol and do not allow the user to change the default protocol.
Does anyone know if ESXi will fix this or do I need a special video card to achieve low level 3d rendering remotely with View? Also would I need vCenter or just ESXi with view connection?
View does have a software version of 3D rendering that is supported on Windows 7 virtual machines running a minimum of HW version 8. I believe you also have to be on vSphere 5.0 or higher. It would be enabled in the pool area and you would need to make PCOIP the default protocol and do not allow the user to change the default protocol.
Even though using Workstation as the server, and Horizon as the program that lets you use Horizon View (not sure of what it does exactly), you do need vCenter server and ESXi to achieve 3D in Horizon View. Basically 3 servers minimum.
Seems you also need Windows 7 and above. With Windows XP you can trick the system by saying it's Windows 7 but then I'm unsure if 3D actually works.
I tried Google Earth using DirectX in Horizon View and it worked, but when trying Diablo it says you need to install DirectX and cannot run. But when running Diablo in vCenter console, it launches and plays just fine. So I'm not sure what's going on there.
