The Xtravirt vSphere RDP Plug-in provides integration of the Windows Remote Desktop tool with the VMware vSphere Client.

Utilising Remote Desktop to connect virtual machines provides a better user experience compared to the built-in VMware console as well as performing better across WAN connections.

System Requirements

• VMware vCenter Server version 4 and above
• Version 4.0.0 or greater of the VMware vSphere Client
• Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5
• Version 7.0 or greater of the Microsoft Remote Desktop Connection client

Download File Contents

• vSphere RDP Plug-in installation software
• Install and User Guide

Screenshots

Known Issues

• You receive the following message when running the vSphere Client:
  “Plugin to enable RDP access in vSphere VI Client. The plug-in failed to load on server(s) “servername here” due to the following error: The type initializer for ‘vc_functions’ threw an exception.”
  This is a known issue currently affecting some systems.

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Vmware heeft een update voor versie 7.0 van zijn virtualisatiesoftware Workstation uitgebracht. Met dit programma is het mogelijk om een of meerdere virtuele computers aan te maken, waarop een groot aantal verschillende besturingssystemen op kunnen worden geïnstalleerd. Op die manier kunnen ze naast elkaar worden gebruikt, in tegenstelling tot een dualbootopstelling waar tussen het een of het ander gekozen moet worden. Vmware Workstation is beschikbaar voor Windows en Linux en een licentie kost ongeveer 155 euro. Meer informatie over de mogelijkheden van dit pakket kunnen op deze pagina worden gevonden. Versie 7.0.1 voegt ondersteuning voor nieuwe besturingssystemen toe en lost een aantal problemen op:

What’s New

New Support for 32-Bit and 64-Bit Operating Systems

• Windows 2008 R2 – Host and guest
• Windows Vista SP2 – Host and guest
• Ubuntu 9.10 – Host and guest
• RHEL 5.4 – Host and guest
• CentOS 5.4 – Guest
• Oracle Enterprise Linux 5.4 – Guest

Vmware heeft versie 7.0 van zijn virtualisatiesoftware Workstation uitgebracht. Met dit programma is het mogelijk om een of meerdere virtuele computers aan te maken, waarop een groot aantal verschillende besturingssystemen op kunnen worden geïnstalleerd. Op die manier kunnen ze naast elkaar worden gebruikt, in tegenstelling tot een dualbootopstelling waar tussen het een of het ander gekozen moet worden. Vmware Workstation is beschikbaar voor Windows en Linux en een licentie kost ongeveer 155 euro. Meer informatie over de mogelijkheden van dit pakket kunnen op deze pagina worden gevonden.

VMware heeft versie 6.5.3 build 185404 van zijn virtualisatiesoftware Workstation uitgebracht. Dit pakket doet zijn werk onder Linux en Windows en is in staat om via een virtuele machine diverse besturingssystemen op de hostcomputer te laten draaien. Voor het gast-OS kan je kiezen uit verschillende BSD-varianten, diverse Linux-distributies, Solaris en Windows. Voor meer informatie verwijzen we jullie door naar deze pagina en deze handleiding in pdf-formaat. De lijst met aanpassingen van versie 6.5.3 ziet er als volgt uit:

What’s New

Workstation 6.5.3 is a maintenance release that resolves some known issues. With this release of VMware Workstation, new support has been added.

Support for New Guest Operating Systems

VMware provides new support for the following guest operating system on Workstation 6.5.3:

• Ubuntu 9.04 is fully supported.

Security Fixes:

• New: Third party library libpng updated to 1.2.35. Several flaws were discovered in the way the third-party libpng library handled uninitialized pointers. An attacker could create a PNG image file in such a way, that when loaded by an application linked to libpng, it could cause the application to crash or execute arbitrary code at the privilege level of the user running the application. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (cve.mitre.org) has assigned the name CVE-2009-0040 to this issue.

Miscellaneous:

• On Linux hosts, Workstation will not exit normally if the Workspace preference Remember opened virtual machines between sessions is not selected.
• Sometimes the VMwareUser.exe process on a Windows guest uses 100 percent of the CPU after a drag and drop operation because the operation has not been terminated properly.
• The Etoken encryption USB device from Alladin Systems is not recognized in the preboot environment for a Windows XP virtual machine.
• Workstation virtual machines that were converted from ESX virtual machines might fail if the display is set to 8-bit color.
• After installing and configuring VMware Tools on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3, the sound does not work after restarting the guest.
• On a Windows XP Service Pack 2 guest, the Hardware Wizard stops responding when installing Logitech QuickCAm Pro 9000.
• Add enhanced SVGA and mouse drivers to support X.Org server version 1.6.
• WLK DiskStress test fails with data corruption error on LSI Logic virtual device.
• Moving files between shared folders or mapped drives in Windows guests that point to the same directory on the host, cause the files to disappear.
• Pressing any keys while grabbing (for example, Ctrl+g) or ungrabbing become stuck on an Ubuntu 9.04 host.
• On an Ubuntu 9.04 host clicking Tab > Home in a guest makes the Workstation user interface disappear, including the current windows and windows for all other open virtual machines.
• On Windows hosts, videos that are recorded while toggling between full screen mode and standard screen mode fail to play in Windows and VLC media players.
• Workstation has been updated to power on the latest Microsoft Virtual PC files (.vhd). VMware recommends that you create a copy or linked clone of the image. If you do not create a copy, you cannot run the original virtual machine in VPC after running it in Workstation, because the virtual hardware layer has been modified.
• Performance is slow when opening a Shared Folder for the first time in a Workstation Windows guest.
• Drag and drop stops working when color depth is set to 16-bit on a Workstation guest.
• When moving a virtual machine from a later version of Workstation to a 6.5.x version of Workstation, the taskbar icon indicates that a more current version of VMware Tools is available and that VMware Tools should be updated.
• On Linux hosts, when you capture a screen shot to the clipboard by clicking VM > Capture Screen, and paste the image into an image editor, the image colors do not display correctly.
• NAT networking does not work on the latest Windows operating systems.
• If VMware Workstation is installed using administrative installation on a 64-bit Windows host, you cannot use Map or Disconnect Virtual Disks. If you attempt to use these features, the following message appears: Failed to initialize library for mounting and unmounting virtual disks.
• Installing an Ubuntu 8.10 guest from a CD using Easy Install causes the Workstation to hang.
• VMware Tools does not compile correctly on Ubuntu 8.10 and 9.04.
• After uninstalling VMware Tools from an Ubuntu 8.10 guest, restart the guest to re-establish the netwok connection.
• When upgrading VMware Tools on Ubuntu 9.04, the upgrade fails and a message appears indicating that the modules are already installed.
• Default suspend and resume scripts do not activate or deactivate the network interfaces correctly in a 32-bit Ubuntu 9.04 guests.
• Capturing multiple screen shots on an Ubuntu 9.0.4 host, using either the Capture Screen command or the Ctrl+Alt+Print key combination, causes the user interface to become unresponsive.

RVTools is a small .NET 2.0 application which uses the VI SDK to display information about your virtual machines. Interacting with VirtualCenter 2.x or ESX 3.x RVTools is able to list information about cpu, memory, disks, nics, cd-rom, floppy drives, snapshots, VMware tools, ESX hosts, datastores and health checks. With RVTools you can disconnect the cd-rom or floppy drives from the virtual machines and RVTools is able to list the current version of the VMware Tools installed inside each virtual machine. and update them to the latest version.

Virtualisatie heeft de laatste jaren een steeds stevigere plek veroverd in het bedrijfsleven. Bekende namen zijn onder andere Xen en VMware. Het laatstgenoemde bedrijf heeft met zijn kersverse vSphere 4 het Infrastructure 3-platform vervangen. Een belangrijk onderdeel daar van is VMware ESX. Dit is het besturingssysteem dat geïnstalleerd wordt op een kale machine en vervolgens gebruikt wordt om virtuele machines uit te voeren. De ontwikkelaars hebben versie 4.0 build 164009 van VMware ESX uitgebracht en voorzien van de volgende aankondiging:

What’s New

This release of vSphere 4.0 includes ESX 4.0 and vCenter Server 4.0. Read about the new and enhanced features in this release in What’s New in VMware vSphere 4.0.

ESX, vCenter Server, and vSphere Client Version Compatibility

The vSphere Compatibility Matrixes provide details on the compatibility of current and previous versions of VMware vSphere components, including ESX, vCenter Server, the vSphere Client, and optional VMware products. In addition, check the vSphere 4.0 Compatibility Matrixes for information on supported management and backup agents before installing ESX or vCenter Server.