Virtual Desktop Infrastructure. Framework providing remote access to a (typically virtual) desktop.
Questions tagged [vdi]
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How to check the uuid of a virtualbox vdi?
How can I check the uuid of a vdi or vmdk?
There should be some command line on VBoxManage to show it.
I know I read it some place in the docs, but now for some reason I can't find it...

Radagast the Brown
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How can i Extract Files From VDI
I was using VirtualBox on my PC(WIN 7)
I managed to View some files in my .VDI file..
How can I open or view the contents of my .vdi file and retrieve the files from there?

Rai Micheal
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Docker Desktop - An unexpected error was encountered while executing a WSL command
I'm getting the below error after installing a new version of Docker Desktop.
An unexpected error was encountered while executing a WSL command.
Common causes include access rights issues, which occur after waking the computer or not being…

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Which Desktop Virtualization software runs most smoothly?
Background:
I'm running a full-time job and a part-time job in the weekends, and both my employers have supplied a laptop for me to work on. Of course I also have my powerful workstation at home to work from, and sometimes when I'm at the office at…

Christian Hollbaum
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WMI:Getting Invalid Class Error when running shell command through another program
I am trying to get PCoIP Statistics which are available through WMI, I use following command for WMIC
wmic path Win32_PerfRawData_TeradiciPerf_PCoIPSessionNetworkStatistics
or with powershell
powershell Get-WmiObject -namespace "root\cimv2"…

user1064504
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Free alternatives for RDP, ICA and similar protocols
I'm currently working on an a program idea I've had that involves desktop remoting. I'm looking for the most efficient way for desktop streaming from server to client. I've been reading on the issue and the RDP and ICA protocols sound very…

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Is there a way to redirect (render) a window to a "memory display"?
I want to make a windows application whose GUI will be streamed to another device (allowing remote control). The point is that I'm not willing to rely on creating Windows Sessions to isolate the GUI I/O's (1)
To achieve this, I started observing…

J.Hudler
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Create and modify the contents of a VDI disk image in Linux
Is there any way I can create a Virtual Box disk image (.vdi) that is NTFS formatted and copy a set of files to it prior to attaching it to an already configured instance as a second disk using VBoxManage?

Jonathan Williamson
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Converting VirtualBox .VDI .VHD .VMDK to BOOTABLE .iso file
The title is pretty much describe it all.
I thought it would be an extremely easy task but I'm googling the topic for a few days and can not find a proper solution.
I succeed convert it to .iso but it's not BOOTABLE from physical machine.
I have…

yGangina
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Error while logging on to the outlook email account inside VDI
While I'm trying to logon my outlook e-mail account using python inside a VDI , I'm getting the SOCKET error
CODE:
import imaplib, email, os
user = 'user_name@company.com'
password = 'my_password'
imap_url = 'outlook.office365.com'
def…

Tad
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Token-based authentication in Horizon HTML Access (Horizon View web-client)
I'm working on a web application (lets call it Portal) that provides access to Horizon View 6 based virtual desktops using Horizon HTML Access. I want to be able to automatically login users to their machines once they've authenticated in the…

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How to reduce the physical size of the disk in VirtualBox VDI
The size of VDI virtual disk file of a virtual machine was increased by the amount of files saved in it.
Now I released disk space, leaving less than half the previous space, but the VDI file does not decrease. (Obviously does not increase)
Is there…

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Win32Shutdown Generic Failure
I am putting together a script which will log off VDI sessions which have been in a disconnected state for over 10 hours. I have managed to get everything together except for the last hurdle - actually forcing a logoff.
ForEach ($Desktop in…

Charlie Sorrell
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How to debug java EXCEPTION_ACCESS_VIOLATION error
I have java test file, which keeps failing randomly in the jenkins CI TEST stage with the below error:
22:22:54 # A fatal error has been detected by the Java Runtime Environment:
22:22:54 #
22:22:54 # EXCEPTION_ACCESS_VIOLATION (0xc0000005) at…

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Why is the "Create Virtual Device" button is disabled in my AVD Manager?
I've seen questions regarding button disabled in AVD Manager. But all of them are after when you click "Create Virtual Device" button.
I am on VDI and I am unable to click the "Create Virtual Device" button itself.
Android: v111.0(R)
Android Studio:…

Naman Patel
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