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PCoIP painting issues

iguy — Sun, 28 Mar 2010 06:52:48 +0000

Finally got PCoIP with View 4.0.1 up and running. All excited and thrilled to compare it to RDP. It was looking good until I fired up IE 8 and went to a couple websites. Some had issues.. Some didn’t.

IE8 based Painting Issues

I then launched vSphere client only to be unable to see any of the objects in the left hand window in the client.

vSphere Painting Issues

This VM is running on ESX 3.5U4 on VM Hardware 4. The quick fix is to upgrade to VM Hardware 7 which entails all the updates to vSphere 4 & VM tools updates.

The other fix is due to the following two bugs in Hardware version 4.

Completely uninstall the View Agent
Reboot
Reinstall the View Agent (Make sure that the Video Driver version is [...].0032)

If this doesn’t do it then you are probably having an issue with VRAM. The fix is to adjust the pool inside of View for this machine and set the resolution and # of monitors so they come out to a number divisible by 64. (Kudos to my Support Wizard for finding this one.)

The magic formula is

((#of monitors * Width of Resolution) * (# of monitors * Height of Resolution) * 4 )/1024 == Multiple of 64

Keep in mind if you have less monitors than you set the pool to, PCoIP handles this gracefully and it doesn’t cause issues.

New vmware.com HomePage Layout & View 4 is released

iguy — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 14:14:15 +0000

New vmware.com HomePage is now live. I had an “anonymous internet tipster” give the heads up last night. Looks good and a bit more sleek in fitting with the branding of the new vmware logo.

Along with that View 4 is finally released. I’ve been playing with some beta bits for a while now and the PCoIP is pretty impressive catchup with ICA protocol. I’m looking forward to the mass quantity of comparisons that are going to come out now between ICA & PCoIP.

VMworld 2009 – Keynote P3

iguy — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 15:30:24 +0000

View also includes the Mobile Technology dicussion. Mobile Technology is longer term working for functionality. Visa Product Development is up on the stage. He sees this space as a huge innovation going forward. Current development is significantly complicated. Easing functionality for development is extremely interesting for Visa.

The Visa demo uses Windows Mobile on a developer version of a phone (kinda big) running an Atom CPU. The presentation shows some alerting from Visa transactions and finding local ATMs. The impressive zing is that the Visa demo application is actually an Android app running on the Atom CPU. Wow.

Next..

VMworld 2009 – Keynote P2

iguy — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 15:21:11 +0000

A major goal of the View initative is to have the same image while providing the best experience possible with WAN, LAN and Direct machine speeds. For WAN/LAN the solution will be PCoIP. The performance numbers are very impressive and no numbers. This protocol has shown some excellent capabilities over WAN connections.

The other piece for local machine usage is Employee Owned machines. Hosted Virtualization is being highly developed. Deals with Intel have gone the next step with Bare Metal Virtualization for Corporate owned machines.

Demo of the Bare Metal Virtualization (type 1 hypervisor). Direct3D works fairly well during the demo. A presentation of OpenGL using the Google Earth demo over PCoIP and over the LAN was very nice. The WAN demo back to Portland simply rocked.

Wyse has an iPhone application to make the iPhone act as a thin client connecting over PCoIP to the same virtual machine ruled. Quick and effectively to scroll around the screen and do what you would normally. Which is appropriate having seen well over 2 out of 10 people having iPhones, more than Blackberrys here.

More to come.. next post…