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Using the vCenter console for mirroring a PCoIP session

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Sometimes, i.e. for support reasons it is necessary that you can mirror a users remote session. There are three ways to do that in VMware View. Windows remote assistent (VMware Knowledge Base article), a remote software like VNC or PC Anywhere or using the vCenter Console. Usually when you try to use the vCenter’s console for mirroring the users desktop, you’ll just see a blank screen, which is the normal behaviour. If you want to see the users screen, just must change/add a value in/to the Windows Registry.

You’ll find that key at: HKLM\SOFTWARE\VMware, Inc.\VMware SVGA DevTap\NoBlankOnAttach : DWORD: 1

Kudos go to my colleague Vincent Wu from China. Here is his blog. (Chinese language)

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Written by Christoph Harding

April 29th, 2011 at 12:56 pm

Posted in PCoIP,VMware View

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  • http://BladesMadeSimple.com/ Kevin Houston

    I’m not seeing “VMware SVGA DevTap” anywhere in the registry on the vCenter server or the Win 7 VM.

  • http://www.cd-k.de/ Christoph Harding

    Is the VMware View Agent installed with PCoIP? Otherwise you should
    try to create the keys and values.

    2011/5/5 Disqus :

  • http://www.rcnitrotalk.com Michael

    /remove double post.

  • http://www.rcnitrotalk.com Michael

    I’ve been using this “fix” for a while now and it’s a life saver. I’ve actually created a .REG file that I can just run on a new Parent so this will be applied to all VM’s in the pool.

    Just create a new file in Notepad and copy and paste the following into notepad and save as a .reg file.

    Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

    [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREVMware, Inc.VMware SVGA DevTap]
    “NoBlankOnAttach”=dword:00000001

  • skoolz

    I added the key in the registry on the vCenter Server and on the Win7 View Client i want to mirror. I still get a blank screen! What am I doing wrong?

  • Kevindba

    So does anyone have a solution to mirroring a Pcoip session when using vmware view 5.0??

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