I normally use Windows Vista but I have an XP VM for doing lots of admin work – this allows me to VPN into the data centre on the VM while I VPN into the office network from the host laptop (or surf the net safely). The idea is to separate my working environment from my surfing/email environment.
I just set up a CentOS VM on Hyper-V. Hey, can you believe I actually know how to install *NIX! I can’t do much more with them but I can get them running 🙂 Anyway, there’s no integration components for CentOS so I couldn’t use a console window via RDP to the host to get the final setup of the VM done, e.g. allow remote telnet/SSH admin (which I’ll have to google). I need mouse access and that requires IC’s using the console via RDP.
The solution? I’m hoping that’ll be get onto the VM console via the web or self-service portal. But there are a few pre-requisites:
- .NET 3.0 must be installed on the browser machine.
- XP SP3 requires that you turn on a new feature called CredSSP.