@RichardDale wrote:Further to my original message, a Knowledge base article has been posted which bascailly says that Window restricts any video rendering from "session 0".
https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/89855
A workaround is suspend then resume the guest (once logged in).
So, this will never be solved due to Windows limitations.
Bingo! It is indeed because of the session 0 restriction. You're running a VM before the user has logged into windows and as such it can never get access to the desktop.
This is also exactly the workaround that Vimarun employs in order to not have this annoying issue. Vimarun automates the suspend/resume on login in case you want to run the VM in the foreground, so you don't really notice it much.
The one other remark I haven't seen mentioned in this thread is that the "good old" shared Virtual Machines feature did not have this particular issue. The reason is that it all worked completely different, but it is interesting nonetheless.
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Wil
