Re: application on remote host crashes when using remote desktop

Quoting Chris McDonald <[email protected]>:

> Hi,
>
> I use rdesktop on Fedora 13 x64 version rdesktop-1.6.0-9.fc13.x86_64 to
> connect to a windows XP SP3 host which is actually a KVM virtual machine on
> the same host. I've used this configuration for over a year now without any
> problem whatsoever.
>
> Recently I've started using a new piece of software called esignal 11 on the
> windows XP virtual machine. If I use the software within the VM console,
> then it runs fine. But if I attempt to use it from an rdesktop session the
> esignal 11 application crashes almost immediately.
>
> I've tried connecting to the same virtual machine using a windows 7 host
> remote desktop session and that works fine and does not crash the esignal 11
> application.
>
> So I am led to think that the problem perhaps lies with rdesktop somewhere.
> Any help or assistance would be appreciated. If someone can tell me how to
> collect trace for this, I'll happily do it as a fix to this is important to
> me.
>

In Windows XP/2003, there is a console (or session 0). Some  
applications must run in this session only for access to hardware and  
other system processes. Session 1 and above are the RDP sessions.

In Windows 7/2008, there is no console. Only system processes run in  
session 0. The users run in session 1 and up.

If you want to run the application on Windows XP and the machine is  
virtualized, I would suggest connecting to console(session 0) via VNC.

Ken Cobler


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