Slow mouse performance on Windows 2008 R2 virtual machine

December 27, 2010 11 Comments


I wanted to migrate the lab to Windows Server 2008 R2 and found some problems with the video drivers provided with vSphere 4.0. After a quick search at http://kb.vmware.com I found the following KB article: KB1011709. This article mentioned the new WDDM driver:

Troubleshooting SVGA drivers installed with VMware Tools on Windows 7 and Windows 2008 R2 running on ESX 4.0

Details
  • You receive a black screen on the virtual machine when using Windows 7 or Windows 2008 R2 as a guest operating system on ESX 4.0.
  • You experience slow mouse performance on Windows 2008 R2 virtual machine.
Solution

This issue can occur due to the XPDM (SVGA) driver provided with VMware Tools. This is a legacy Windows driver and is not supported on Windows 7 and Windows 2008 R2 guest operating systems.

To resolve this issue, update to ESX 4.0 Update 1. A new WDDM driver is installed with the updated VMware Tools and is compatible with Windows 7 and Windows 2008 R2.

Note: After a VMware Tools upgrade, the driver files are located in C:\Program Files\Common Files\VMware\Drivers\wddm_video.

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Script: Install Printer Drivers On TS/Citrix Servers

February 14, 2008 Leave a comment


Aleks van http://www.virtualistic.nl/ heeft een script geschreven voor het installeren van Printer drivers op een Terminal / Citrix server. Ik was de gelukkige betá tester (zonder problemen) en alles werkte out of the box.

Hieronder een quote van de website van Aleks:

Prerequisites:
- You have to be able to install printdrivers (duh!)
- You have to be able to connect to your printerserver (test this through typing \\yourprintserver you should see your shared printers)
What is inside the zip file?
- The script of course!
- Addprinters.txt this is the input file for the script. Place your printers in this .txt file (eg: \\yourprintserver\printer1)
The default location of the addprinters.txt is C:\ You can change this but make sure you edit the script to reflect the new location.

Zodra je het Addprinters.txt hebt gevuld, start je het script en dan verschijnt het onderstaande scherm.

PrinterDriver_Script

Nu ben je natuurlijk benieuwd wat het script gedaan heeft. Dat laat ik zien in de onderstaande tekening:

printerscript

Meer informatie en de download vindt je hier: http://www.virtualistic.nl/

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How To: Slipstream (Mass Storage) Drivers within your Windows CD

September 28, 2007 1 Comment


driverpacks7

In deze post lees je hoe je vrij eenvoudig drivers kunt integreren in je Windows CD. Dit gaat met behulp van DriverPacks en het programma DriverPacks BASE.

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