sorry for disturbing the thread, can somebody please explain me shortly, what the advantages of those profile applications are?

hmm i have to correct myself. everything seems to work, seems like it was my mistake (thought the manual pool would also use templates, but it's using VMs)

another question: any possibility to see on the vServer client if a machine is already assigned to a pool?

Yes, maybe that was the exact words there were. What are the benefit with the new API based provision?

/H

With increased RAM in the desktop, I got the full screen. Tom was right on!

/Henrik

Sorry what would not work?

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So what do we think then folks?!

You can also run a "qwinsta" in a cmd prompt on the client - it will come back with "rdpwd" for RDP and "wdcon" for PCoIP (the latter being a console session as far as the clien tis concerned).

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Look at the "Desktop Sources", that should list all your machines, what user that are associated and what protocol that is used.

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Linjo

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Try to do a complete shutdown of the VM (not a reboot) and start it again.

If it still does not work please post the vmx-file here.

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Are you sure its "vSphere Optimizations" and not "Use vSphere Mode for View Composer"?

vSphere mode indicates that you want to use the new api-based provision with linked clones.

Its only available when you only have vSphere4 hosts and not a mixed ESX3.5 and vSphere4 enviroment.

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Another few options are:

RES Powerfuse (Similar capabilites as Appsense but with some additional features)

Immidio Flex Profiles (Similar to RTO)

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I think it should only be used temporary during provisioning and customization.

Does it stay there after the desktop is has the "ready" status?
Do you have any user data disks configured?

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You can prevent the blanking by making this registry entry on the desktop:
HKLMSOFTWAREVMware, Inc.VMware SVGA DevTapNoBlankOnAttach : DWORD: 1

This should only be used for troubleshooting scenarios and can cause degraded performance for the enduser.

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hello,

i had the same problem on view 4 / vsphere 4u1. restaring solved the problem, anyways this shouldn't be necessary in a commercial system for improved efficiency! I can't just restart a server in a production environment! this bug seems to be over one year old, please fix it!

Message: Getting VM error com.vmware.vdi.admin.ui.DesktopBean.getVms(SourceFile:835) java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: id == null at com.vmware.vdi.adamwrap

Type: Error

Time: 22.11.09 01:26:43

Module: DesktopBean

Thread: TP-Processor2

Additional details:

Getting VM error com.vmware.vdi.admin.ui.DesktopBean.getVms(SourceFile:835)

java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: id == null

at com.vmware.vdi.adamwrapper.utilities.Utility.validateArgument(SourceFile:272)

at com.vmware.vdi.adamwrapper.adam.AdamEntityManager.getById(SourceFile:161)

at com.vmware.vdi.ob.admin.b.a(SourceFile:355)

at com.vmware.vdi.ob.admin.b.f(SourceFile:1402)

at com.vmware.vdi.ob.admin.b.a(SourceFile:1464)

at com.vmware.vdi.ob.admin.b.a(SourceFile:1439)

at com.vmware.vdi.admin.ui.DesktopBean.getVms(SourceFile:817)

at sun.reflect.GeneratedMethodAccessor1230.invoke(Unknown Source)

at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25)

at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:585)

at com.sun.faces.el.PropertyResolverImpl.getValue(PropertyResolverImpl.java:79)

at com.sun.facelets.el.LegacyELContext$LegacyELResolver.getValue(LegacyELContext.java:141)

at com.sun.el.parser.AstValue.getValue(AstValue.java:117)

at com.sun.el.ValueExpressionImpl.getValue(ValueExpressionImpl.java:192)

at com.sun.facelets.el.TagValueExpression.getValue(TagValueExpression.java:71)

at com.sun.facelets.el.LegacyValueBinding.getValue(LegacyValueBinding.java:56)

at javax.faces.component.UIData.getValue(UIData.java:527)

at org.ajax4jsf.component.UIDataAdaptor.getValue(UIDataAdaptor.java:1459)

at org.ajax4jsf.component.SequenceDataAdaptor.getDataModel(SequenceDataAdaptor.java:70)

at org.ajax4jsf.component.SequenceDataAdaptor.createDataModel(SequenceDataAdaptor.java:64)

at org.ajax4jsf.component.UIDataAdaptor.getExtendedDataModel(UIDataAdaptor.java:592)

at org.ajax4jsf.component.UIDataAdaptor.setRowKey(UIDataAdaptor.java:327)

at org.ajax4jsf.component.UIDataAdaptor.iterate(UIDataAdaptor.java:968)

at org.ajax4jsf.component.UIDataAdaptor.processDecodes(UIDataAdaptor.java:1001)

at org.ajax4jsf.component.UIDataAdaptor.processDecodes(UIDataAdaptor.java:1011)

at javax.faces.component.UIForm.processDecodes(UIForm.java:144)

at javax.faces.component.UIComponentBase.processDecodes(UIComponentBase.java:880)

at org.ajax4jsf.component.UIInclude.processDecodes(UIInclude.java:153)

at javax.faces.component.UIComponentBase.processDecodes(UIComponentBase.java:880)

at javax.faces.component.UIInput.processDecodes(UIInput.java:380)

at javax.faces.component.UIComponentBase.processDecodes(UIComponentBase.java:880)

at org.ajax4jsf.component.AjaxViewRoot$1.invoke(AjaxViewRoot.java:256)

at org.ajax4jsf.context.JsfOneOneInvoker.invokeOnComponent(JsfOneOneInvoker.java:78)

at org.ajax4jsf.context.JsfOneOneInvoker.invokeOnComponent(JsfOneOneInvoker.java:83)

at org.ajax4jsf.context.JsfOneOneInvoker.invokeOnRegionOrRoot(JsfOneOneInvoker.java:58)

at org.ajax4jsf.context.AjaxContextImpl.invokeOnRegionOrRoot(AjaxContextImpl.java:170)

at org.ajax4jsf.component.AjaxViewRoot.processDecodes(AjaxViewRoot.java:276)

at com.sun.faces.lifecycle.ApplyRequestValuesPhase.execute(ApplyRequestValuesPhase.java:79)

at com.sun.faces.lifecycle.LifecycleImpl.phase(LifecycleImpl.java:200)

at com.sun.faces.lifecycle.LifecycleImpl.execute(LifecycleImpl.java:90)

at javax.faces.webapp.FacesServlet.service(FacesServlet.java:197)

at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:269)

at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:188)

at org.ajax4jsf.webapp.BaseXMLFilter.doXmlFilter(BaseXMLFilter.java:141)

at org.ajax4jsf.webapp.BaseFilter.doFilter(BaseFilter.java:281)

at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:215)

at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:188)

at com.vmware.vdi.admin.be.filters.FileUploadFilter.doFilter(SourceFile:123)

at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:215)

at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:188)

at com.vmware.vdi.admin.be.filters.LoginFilter.doFilter(SourceFile:104)

at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:215)

at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:188)

at com.vmware.vdi.admin.be.filters.DisableUrlSessionFilter.doFilter(SourceFile:61)

at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:215)

at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:188)

at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapperValve.invoke(StandardWrapperValve.java:213)

at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContextValve.invoke(StandardContextValve.java:174)

at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHostValve.invoke(StandardHostValve.java:127)

at org.apache.catalina.valves.ErrorReportValve.invoke(ErrorReportValve.java:117)

at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngineValve.invoke(StandardEngineValve.java:108)

at org.apache.catalina.connector.CoyoteAdapter.service(CoyoteAdapter.java:174)

at org.apache.jk.server.JkCoyoteHandler.invoke(JkCoyoteHandler.java:200)

at org.apache.jk.common.HandlerRequest.invoke(HandlerRequest.java:283)

at org.apache.jk.common.ChannelSocket.invoke(ChannelSocket.java:773)

at org.apache.jk.common.ChannelSocket.processConnection(ChannelSocket.java:703)

at org.apache.jk.common.ChannelSocket$SocketConnection.runIt(ChannelSocket.java:895)

at org.apache.tomcat.util.threads.ThreadPool$ControlRunnable.run(ThreadPool.java:689)

at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:595)

I had initially run into the same problem and find this in the release notes.

http://www.vmware.com/support/view40/doc/releasenotes_viewmanager40.html

Also they point out not to stay on the console tab inside of the vsphere client as it will impact performance.