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How to check the uuid of a virtualbox vdi?
How can I check the uuid of a vdi or vmdk?
There should be some command line on VBoxManage to show it.
I know I read it some place in the docs, but now for some reason I can't find it...
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How to extract files from a `.vdi` file
I was using VirtualBox on my Windows 7 PC.
How can I open or view the contents of the .vdi files and retrieve the files from within?
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WMI:Getting Invalid Class Error when running shell command through another program
I am trying to get PCoIP Statistics which are available through WMI, I use following command for WMIC
wmic path Win32_PerfRawData_TeradiciPerf_PCoIPSessionNetworkStatistics
or with powershell
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Is there a way to redirect (render) a window to a "memory display"?
I want to make a windows application whose GUI will be streamed to another device (allowing remote control). The point is that I'm not willing to rely on creating Windows Sessions to isolate the GUI I/...
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1
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Create and modify the contents of a VDI disk image in Linux
Is there any way I can create a Virtual Box disk image (.vdi) that is NTFS formatted and copy a set of files to it prior to attaching it to an already configured instance as a second disk using ...
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Token-based authentication in Horizon HTML Access (Horizon View web-client)
I'm working on a web application (lets call it Portal) that provides access to Horizon View 6 based virtual desktops using Horizon HTML Access. I want to be able to automatically login users to their ...
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How to Power off or shutdown XenDesktop Command?
I want to shut down or Power Off Citrix Xendesktop.
I tried many sites including Citrix docs but couldn't find anything for shutting down the Xendesktop.
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VMWare copy paste from host to local
We need to use a VDI with Windows 10 through WMWare Horizon Client (host) from a Virtual Box instance with Windows 7 (guest), and the Local PC has windows 10 (local)
We would need to be able to copy ...
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Scraping source code of website does not work on VDI
I have a problem with extracting data from the website using VBA on Citrix Virtual Desktop.
I have wrote my code on my local desktop first and it works good - HTML source has been extracted to the ...
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How to debug java EXCEPTION_ACCESS_VIOLATION error
I have java test file, which keeps failing randomly in the jenkins CI TEST stage with the below error:
22:22:54 # A fatal error has been detected by the Java Runtime Environment:
22:22:54 #
22:22:54 ...
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How to connect pika in python 3.9.5 in vdi
I am using Python 3.9.5 in VDI, and trying to connect pika but I'm getting this error:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "C:\Users\xyz\qwert.py", line 24, in <module>
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Recover lost data from VirtualBox/Vagrant after host crash
Our linux server has been rebooted after server crash/freeze.
Trying to use a virtual machine (using vagrant up) , I've noticed the VM (created with vagrant) reverted to a prior version (version of ...
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Authentication Mechanisms in Terminal Servers
I am working on a legacy application wherein I have to implement authentication mechanism in VDI & Terminal Servers using Azure AD for different types of users (guest, member).
I could not find ...
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0
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Web app: detect identity of the host workstation running a VDI
We have an enterprise-level web application deployed at 100+ sites, each with hundreds or even thousands of users and workstations. Many of our clients are now looking to move to virtual desktops, and ...
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1
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Virtual Machine organization for Windows 2012 VDI & DB Server?
I have a single Windows 2012 Server and trying to configure it for 2 independent purposes:
(1) DB Server MSSQL-2012
(2) VDI for about 5 clients.
I understand more or less how everything works but I'...
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How to prevent people or a program from extracting data out of a system?
Let us say, there is a system containing data, where the user can view or manipulate it, using the options in the system, but should not be able to copy/ extract/ export the data out of the system. ...
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VirtualBox snapshots
Heres what happened.
I had a snapshot on which I was working from within a linux VM. A friend requested a clean VM as a clone of mine. So I closed / shutdown my running VM, made a copy of the Disk1....
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Citrix VDI - how to verify working with a Golden Image?
When opening the Golden Image for updates, how can an installed software verify that it's running on a Golden Image and not on an MCS or PVS endpoint?
There are actions that you'd not perform on a ...
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how to sent-RdsUserSessionMessage to users who is using the sessionhost?
I want to send message to the users. I found the Send-RdsUserSessionMessage.
I want to send message to all users who is using the special
SessionHostName.
Is it ...
0
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0
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Azure VDI: Upgrade from Windows 10 to 11
How to upgrade from Windows 10 to 11 without impacting users:
We use Windows 10 Multi-Session
We don’t use FSXProfiles (profile redirection) - all user profiles are being stored on the hard drive ...
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How can I connect to Horizon ADAM LDAP Database with PowerShell or other cli?
I am trying to automate some repetitive tasks in VMware Horizon.
In particular I need a way to modify the ADAM LDAP Database with something different of adsiedit so that the change can happen on ...
0
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1
answer
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Enable Citrix UI after disconnect
I have my VDI machine on which I am trying to run Selenium Tests. All works well when I am connected (via Citrix Workspace) however when I'm not connected (when I disonnect) the "screen" ...
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1
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Power BI Gateway on Remote Desktop Fails Daily
Trying to install a standard gateway on a Remote Desktop. The gateway works for about 24 hours and then fails. Once I login to the "On Premise Gateway" app, and restart the gateway it ...
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how to enable h264 codecs in spice server?
I'm new to spice-server source code. And I want to test streaming codecs of SPICE. I have tried streaming-video=all option to enable streaming codecs, but it's only mjpeg. I know spice server is able ...
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Display and change active keymap
I have a very complex setup:
German keyboard
Windows laptop
Through VDI web client to a windows machine
To an emacs running on VDI
All tools in the Windows VDI see the correct keymap, but my emacs ...