Yesterday VMware released a new version of VMware Workstation. The new maintenance release fixes some known issues and does support new operating systems. For a full description please check the VMware Workstation 7.0.1 release notes.

A few month ago I wrote an article about using VMware View 3 with Novell eDirectory. At this time I was testing the installation with View 3, a Novell Netware eDirectory (not Open Enterprise Server) and a Active Directory Server which users and passwords were in sync through DirXML. As you see this environment has two gaps: It needs two directories and it uses a legacy Netware server which will not longer be supported in the future by Novell. Lots of Novell customers have already migrated their environment to OES …

Have a customer that is implementing View4 with PCoIP and dual screens.
They are very happy with the solution except for one thing, performance of Oracle Forms was bad, there was some extra latency when typing and moving between different input fields and they suspected PCoIP and asked if there where some settings to tweak.
After some investigation it turned out to be a problem with the Java version and Oracle Forms in the virtual machine and had nothing to do with the display protocol.
The solution was to start Oracle Forms with …

In a new blog article over at VMware View-Point, VMware’s Desktop CTO Scott Davis talks about broadening the View solution by extending the desktop vision to a wider range of devices and use cases. (Link) An interesting read for everyone who want’s to know more about CVP and Offline VDI.

Have you ever tried to run the same ThinApp application several times? No? Correct! It will not work. There is a way to do it and you’ll find the solution on the newest ThinApp blog article.

People on the forums were asking what the SviInternalDisk is and to be honest I didn’t have a clue. After some researching and talking to the right people I finally got the answer. When using linked clones from View Composer version 2.0 on there are three hard disks created. The OSDisk, SviDataDisk and the SviInternalDisk. We know the first two from previous versions but what about the SviInternalDisk?

Usually the persistent desktop design offers a chance to assign a virtual desktop to a user on first connect/use. The administrator entitles the user or a user group which inherits the users account to a persistent desktop pool but the virtual desktop assignment would be done on first use. However sometimes it may require a pre assignment which can be done the following way.

VMGuru.nl published a new article on sizing a VMware View infrastructure. He talks about CPU, memory, storage and also network recommendations.

A few folks have run into issues with View 4 where PCoIP doesn’t work exactly as they expect. This manifests itself in a couple of different ways:
- Inability to resize the screen at all
- Resizing that only works down instead of up.
- Resizing that responds very slowly or that crashes after several resize attempts.
- Inability to switch between full-screen and windowed.
There are also known issues with the .NET framework, where applications based on this code will not render correctly if it was installed before the View Agent.
The following is a set of steps …