10 minutes to run every Windows app on your Ubuntu desktop
This simple guide will bring up the Windows start menu inside GNOME and allow you to run, use and install any Windows app (that can run in a VM) inside your existing desktop. It takes about 10 minutes to setup, minus the time to install Windows, and involves one command in total.
Final Update September 2007: Virtualbox 1.5 includes seamless virtualization! Go read about that instead!
Update: If you’ve been having trouble getting this working, make sure the key is correct - our site layout chopped the last part of the registry key earlier. Note this requires Windows XP Pro. XP home won’t do.
Update 2: To install the vmware-server package just use the Add/Remove… program.
Update 3: If RDesktop starts a blue background, instead of just the taskbar, click Start → Control Panel → User Accounts → Change the way users log on and off, and enable the welcome screen and fast user switching.
This is a newer version of a rather popular article I wrote a while ago. This updated version is a lot simpler and allows multiple apps to be run.
- Click Applications → Add/Remove… install the vmware-server package.
- Click System → Administration → Synaptic Package Manager. Install the rdesktop package.
- Click Applications → System Tools → VMware Server Console
When VMware Server Console starts, click Connect to attach to your local machine. Then Create a New Virtual Machine. Use all the defaults, but pick NAT networking. Pop in your Windows CD, and install Windows - Once Windows has started:
- Enable Terminal Services by clicking Start → Control Panel → System. Click the Remote tab, and enable Allow users to connect remotely to this computer
- Turn off the desktop for the user you’ll use to run your Windows apps, by clicking Start → Run typing regedit and selecting HKEY_CURRENT_USER/Software/Microsoft/Windows/ CurrentVersion/Policies/Explorer. Create a DWORD called NoDesktop set to 1.
- Note the IP address of Windows. Clicking Start → Connect to → Show All Connections. Select the Local Area Connection and hit the Support tab
- Download SeamlessRDP, then extract it to C:\seamlessrdp
- Log out of Windows, and close VMware Server Console (leave the VM running)
- Back in Ubuntu, open a Terminal, and run:
rdesktop -A -s 'c:\seamlessrdp\seamlessrdpshell.exe c:\windows\explorer.exe' IPAddress -u user -p password
substituting the IP address you noted earlier.
- The top of the Windows taskbar should appear above your GNOME panel on the bottom of the screen. Right click it, select Properties, and disable Lock the Taskbar. Then drag the taskbar to the left hand side of your screen.
That’s it. You can now run launch any Windows app you want from your VM (and install more if you need them). They’ll appear on the GNOME desktop, and you can switch between them from the panel.
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July 4th, 2007 02:46
While this article is simple, I think you forgot one important step.
How is a user suppose to run the command:
rdesktop -A -s ‘c:\seamlessrdp\seamlessrdpshell.exe c:\windows\explorer.exe’ 192.168.106.128 -u user -p password
with out having downloaded seamlessrdpshell and installing it on their Windows box?
Ed: We missed a step when posting - fixed now. Thanks Zargon!
July 4th, 2007 15:40
This is pretty cool, no doubt. Thanks. But this still involves installing MS Windows, which sucks. But more importantly than sucking, you still have to pay a licensing fee to Microsoft, just to install Windows and run the RDP. The crown jewel is to be able to run Windows apps without Windows. WINE is pretty good, but certainly not without issues.
July 4th, 2007 15:55
“Allow users to connect remotely to this computer” isn’t available on the Remote tab of System Properties in Windows XP Home Edition.
Ed: Good point. I’ve added an update that mentions XP Pro is needed. Thanks Larry.
July 4th, 2007 16:13
You need a bigger pic.
July 4th, 2007 16:13
how do you close the vmware console but leave the vm running? i’m a bit confused by this…
Ed: Hi Pat. Just click the X in the top right corner. VMware Server console is just a way to connect to a VMware Server. Unless you actually shut down the VM, it will remain running.
July 4th, 2007 16:13
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July 4th, 2007 16:31
This may be a basic VMWare question, but if I’m going the NAT route, as described above, and if my linux box has a static ip (e.g. 192.168.2.50), do I need to set my IP on the Windows installation to the same IP address manually in the network settings?
Ed: VMware Server has an inbuilt DHCP server that will provide Windows with the right address. You don’t need to do anything more.
July 4th, 2007 16:36
Hello, is there a method to do the same using an existing Windows install? I already have XP Pro on a seperate partition, but on the same drive.
July 4th, 2007 16:39
From memory, I think you need the XP Pro version of windows to run the Remote Desktop.
Will give it a try.
July 4th, 2007 16:41
This is really awesome. I’m working on getting it started everytime I boot up and its great.
I just have one suggestion. It creates a window in the window list called “untitled window”. For it to be completely seamless, it shouldn’t have this. Another miniature tutorial would be great for ways to get rid of this. I did some research on a app called “devils pie” that can do this, but maybe theres an easier way.
Thanks!
July 4th, 2007 16:57
hi me again. I have a few snags on this.
I’ve logged out of windows went back to ubuntu and opened a terminal pasted this in
“rdesktop -A -s ‘c:\seamlessrdp\seamlessrdpshell.exe c:\windows\explorer.exe’ 192.168.106.128 -u user -p password”
but changed the IP to my windows IP and user and password to my username and password. all I get from this is the options for rdesktop.
the only thing thats different is I’m trying this with XP pro 64bit and Ubuntu 64bit
would that cause an issue?
July 4th, 2007 16:57
Which repository are you using to get the vmware-server package? I cannot seem to find it in main, universe or multiverse.
Ed:Hi Casey. The repository is automatically added by the Add/Remove tool, but FYI:
July 4th, 2007 17:14
Can you update windows to get service pack 2 when you do this (when your windows disk doesn’t come with it)? Can you activate windows? Also, is there no possible way to get this to work on Home edition (installing some software to take care of the remote assistance). Alas, if it wasn’t for school, I would of stop using windows a long time ago.
Remote Assistance Options available on Home Edition: http://img2.freeimagehosting.net/uploads/581468298b.jpg
(Advanced button) http://img2.freeimagehosting.net/uploads/4b5b898292.jpg
Ed:
Yes, you can update Windows to get Service Pack 2, and activate it too. I don’t have a copy of XP Home to test getting it to work - if you try it and have success, please post!
July 4th, 2007 17:16
I have a pc on LAN with VmWare Server running Xp Pro; when I call rdesktop it shows the entire desktop.
I’ve followed all the steps…what can be?
Thanks
July 4th, 2007 17:17
hi uh… me… again.
so I’m on my way to figure this out…. I tried to change the single quotes ‘ to double quotes ” and it logged in to my windows desktop but it was an actual remote desktop that took up the whole screen. I think thats why the NoDesktop DWORD was added right? but I added it and still get the desktop. any thoughts?
Ed:
Check the registry entry - the fixed width page layout was chopping off the full path earlier.
July 4th, 2007 17:30
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July 4th, 2007 17:38
Just great, Thanks.
July 4th, 2007 17:49
RE PAT
Single quotes do work, but mine required a sudo at the start. Also, are you certain that you put that NoDesktop in the right spot?
RE Mike
Make sure to tell us how you get all that working.
Cheers!
July 4th, 2007 18:00
Hey that was great thanks people
July 4th, 2007 18:19
do i need vmware server or does it also work with vmware workstation? Because i already got vmware ws intalled.
Ed: vmware workstation should be fine.
July 4th, 2007 18:20
Well explorer.exe is for the entire explorer…put in the executable you need. Also when doing it I found the commands were a bit wrong
rdesktop -A -s ‘c:\seamlessrdp\seamlessrdpshell.exe c:\windows\explorer.exe’ IPAddress -u user -p password
Just change the order
Does anyone know how to get sound to work?
Ed:Explorer is the executable you need for seamlessness. I have yet to try sound.
July 4th, 2007 18:26
Anyone knows if that works with VirtualBox too?
July 4th, 2007 18:30
Thanks for the tip! It’s pretty cool. I suppose the windows on vmware will take up memory while being run in background to launch windows apps. I run windows with vmaware on my ubuntu box time to time but performance of windows and ubuntu both lags on my 1G memory machine…
July 4th, 2007 18:33
nice, i’m gonna try this in slackware 12 in the next couple of days
July 4th, 2007 18:41
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July 4th, 2007 19:24
Pop in your Windows CD, and install Windows.
).
i can do everything up till here, but vm cant find the cd drive (i think) and it says something like “i cant find anything to boot from, please restart”. the physical drive is a dvd reader, cd read/rewriter. its the slave on the primary ide (only one ide this mobo
any suggestions/ideas?
ps. im trying to install windows 2000 pro.
July 4th, 2007 19:26
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July 4th, 2007 19:52
Well this is really good for many applications. But for image processing for example it might be quite slow (Photoshop) and I recommend native applications to be used, like Pixel for Linux: http://www.kanzelsberer.com
July 4th, 2007 20:31
Will this work with win2k?
July 4th, 2007 21:10
So if you have a dual monitor setup, how do you get the Windows taskbar to not span both monitors (with different resolutions)?
This is pretty cool. It’s buggy for me (likely due to the different resolutions of the 2 monitors) but it’s got promise!
July 4th, 2007 21:25
Oh also, watch that Alt-F4 muscle memory! Oops! Alt-F4 will close the rdesktop program (but meanwhile back on the VM, everything is running just like it should so you can just re-launch the command and everything pops back into place)
July 4th, 2007 21:36
Good show! Only point is that the display of the taskbar is flickering. I only get to see a blue bar (expectedly because of the blue background of windows) which isn’t any worth while. Any solution here?
July 4th, 2007 21:39
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July 4th, 2007 21:40
Great! Thanks.
July 4th, 2007 22:12
No ‘Remote’ tab in Control Panel > System (w2kpro)
I’m using windows 2000 pro and it doesn’t have a Remote tab - is there another way to enable terminal services in w2kpro
July 4th, 2007 22:39
@yossi: si your WinXP CD bootable?
@Joseph: then whats the purpose of using this guide? I mean if it uses too much memory than you dont need it. Better just installing 2 OSs and using one when needed.
July 4th, 2007 22:57
Alternative to RDP and Windows XP “professional”, you could use a “VNC” tool to do the same - which additionally gives you truecolor and antialiased fonts.
VirtualBox, btw, contains some sort of “VirtualRDP server” - so _EVENTUALLY_ works with XP home versions. (The RDP server there is just disabled, but still included in “Remote Support” for example. Thus might just be hack-enabled by some “super-s3krit” registry value.)
Ed:VNC and the VirtualBox RDP server can’t run individual apps, just the whole desktop - so unfortunately seamlessRDP won’t be possible.
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July 4th, 2007 23:48
Hi there,
What icons are you using in Ubuntu?
Well done on this hack, should be great for those who are new to Ubuntu.
Me, I left Windows behind long, long ago.
- Matt
July 5th, 2007 00:12
Hi, I encountered the same issue as Pat.
So I changed the terminal command with sudo and double quotes:
sudo rdesktop -A -s “c:\seamlessrdp\seamlessrdpshell.exe c:\windows\explorer.exe” 192.168.115.128 -u user -p password”
Then I got this:
Autoselected keyboard map en-us
ERROR: connect: No route to host
Anyone ideas?
I use 64-bit feisty…thanks
Yossi… are you sure you have a cd that can boot, some of these windows disc’s are actually upgrades and can’t boot.
July 5th, 2007 00:28
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July 5th, 2007 00:33
Hi, tried this on Feisty with my already installed VMWare setup. Can’t get it to work, I’m afraid - when running the rdesktop command I get the full desktop, only without any windows task bar. In fact, removing the explorer.exe part or replacing it with notepad or anything else has exactly the same effect - a full window.
Clicking anywhere pops up the start menu, but any apps open in the rdesktop window rather than ubuntu windows.
I’ve tripled checked all settings and the reg. key is definitely in the right place. Any ideas?
July 5th, 2007 00:57
Hey
When I install the vm server I receive this error
W: Failed to fetch http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/restricted/l
linux-restricted-modules-2.6.20/
vmware-server-kernel-modules-2.6.20-16_2.6.20.5-16.28_i386.deb
404 Not Found
is there anyway around this?
July 5th, 2007 00:58
10 minutes to run every Windows app on your Ubuntu desktop…
For those who feel the need to run Windows (I can’t fault you if you do) I found this article that has been updated recently. Using a combination of rdesktop and vmware server you too can run any windows app in under 10 minutes. My preference is to b…
July 5th, 2007 01:12
Has anyone tried this and manage to get it working with Xubuntu?
July 5th, 2007 01:12
Not sure if there is a way around this, but I found that fast user switching and the welcome screen both had to be enabled for this to work.
Ed:They’re enabled by default.
July 5th, 2007 01:18
@dep
I believe it will work with Virtualbox.
And, I’m sure someone will confirm my suspicions, but, since Virtualbox lets a virtual machine act as an RDP server, you would be able to use XP Home.
Correct me if I’m wrong?
~ow3n
Ed:While VirtualBox includes an RDP server, I believe it’s only to connect to the whole OS< not a single app - hence seamless virtualization isn't possible on XP home.
July 5th, 2007 01:41
Any chance this would work with Windows 98? I only have an install disc for that…
July 5th, 2007 01:53
hey yea the regedit step I missed the lassed bit passed CurrentVersion. but another question arises. I can see the windows start bar now but when I click start it gets clipped right past the bar making it unreadable. and I tried single quotes again but it only works for me with double… don’t know why
July 5th, 2007 01:56
OK, now how do you automate the starting of all this stuff with every system boot? In other words, how do you get the VM to start itself at boot time automatically, and the rdesktop command to run automatically, and the Windows Start menu to appear on the Gnome desktop automatically?
If users need to do all those steps manually with every boot, then the solution will soon feel too cumbersome.
July 5th, 2007 02:14
Am I missing something here? Where is the vmware-server package? In synaptic I find a bunch server kernel modules but no package named “vmware-server” also after installing these, nothing appears in the applications menu.
July 5th, 2007 02:17
Nice, but this is not flawless, in visual studio .net, the auto-completion windows won’t show, that was a deal-killer for me.
July 5th, 2007 02:29
lassed and passed… hahaha. sorry *last and past* its noon. still to early to type. I need some breakfast
July 5th, 2007 03:02
Hi, I followed this tutorial (very simple and nice, congrats!), but i was stopped when I go to start rdesktop command, it works and the login was succesful, but then appears only all dark-blue color…
Any solutions? If you help me continuing this tutorial i wanna translate it on italian…
Sorry for my worthless english, and thanks for the future…
July 5th, 2007 03:05
A couple of things that he forgot to mention:
1. You need to set a password on your XP account, otherwise you won’t be able to log in.
2. After you log out of Windows XP you can close that tab in the VM, but keep the VM open.
3. When you rdesktop you need to put: :3389
For example: rdesktop -A -s “c:\seamlessrdp\seamlessrdpshell.exe C:\Program Files\Internet Explorer\iexplore.exe” :3389 -u administrator -p password
4. Don’t run the Windows desktop, it really blows. It fills the whole screen and it is hard to get back to your desktop without alt-tabing. It also works really funky in a way that is just annoying.
If you want to run multiple app without his method go here:http://www.kood.org/terminal-server-patch/
5. A better tutorial for all major VMs on linux is here: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/SeamlessVirtualization
Ed:Hey, I mentioned 2! 3 isn’t necessary, as that’s the default port. 5. I wrote that! (and moved it to seamless virtualization to make it agnostic!) - check the page history!
July 5th, 2007 03:08
Also someone needs to make a quick guide on how to setup shares to your documents and music. Then you could run itunes straight to your music directory on your linux box. You could do the same with Word to your documents and Photoshop to your Images.
This would remove the issue to working with files in the vm and then transfering them back to your Linux box.
July 5th, 2007 03:35
Nice Blog
July 5th, 2007 03:36
Connecting with virtual server on only…
bit messy..windows desktop over linux…while beryl takes over effects in windows..very funny doo…
.
so somewhat working with full windows desktop.
my regkey… something wrong?
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer]
“NoDriveTypeAutoRun”=dword:00000091
“NoDesktop”=dword:00000001
July 5th, 2007 03:37
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July 5th, 2007 03:41
Great article!
If you’re having trouble connecting with the rdesktop command, make sure you have the firewall in the Windows VM disabled. When enabled, it seems to block the inbound traffic and prevents the connection.
July 5th, 2007 04:05
Sorry
Forgot rebooting virtual xp after regedit
Thanks for tip, did take some more then 10 minutes but learning is good!
July 5th, 2007 04:18
yes the win2k pro cd is bootable, i even tried with the ubuntu cd just to make sure. neither one worked.
July 5th, 2007 04:59
I use vmware all the time, but on windows, with various vm versions of win2k. So, maybe I can help on the cd issue.
I use vmware player, and it has a button at the top to enable the cd to be used by the vm, rather than the host system.
If that does not exist in your setup, then there should be a configuration file, on windows, it’s os.vmx, (think this is standard because I’ve taken my vm directory with this file to a redhat linux at work and been able to use it to bring up a win2k system vm’d on linux). I normally edit this file, as there are lots of tutorials on this on the web, even sites that can create the config file for you.
Anyway, here’s a few lines from my config:
The first 3, commented out, I use when I want to use an .iso of some cd, and I’ve used that to install win2k and other things, (the one below was how I installed driveimage, you just replace the file name with an .iso you happen to have or create).
The next set, is how it looks when I want to use the physical cd itself.
Hope this helps someone.
#uncomment these 3 for an iso, and recomment following
#ide1:0.present = “TRUE”
#ide1:0.fileName = “X:\VMs\driveimage.iso”
#ide1:0.deviceType = “cdrom-image”
# Settings for physical CDROM drive
ide1:0.present = “TRUE”
ide1:0.deviceType = “cdrom-raw”
#ide1:0.startConnected = “TRUE”
ide1:0.fileName = “auto detect”
July 5th, 2007 05:36
pretty cool. I use the remote dekstop all the time. This is definetely one way to use it!
July 5th, 2007 05:39
I followed the tutorial and all seems to work well, but instead of just the Taskbar appearing an entire RDP window comes up with a blue desktop background. Does it have anything to do with possible conflicting desktop resolutions between the client and the server or is this something else?
July 5th, 2007 05:57
Hi, i am trying to get this working, but when the seamlessrdp prog runs, it logs in and leaves a grey screen in VMware window, and i get this error in the terminal.
WARNING: Remote desktop does not support colour depth 24; falling back to 16
Na startbar appears
July 5th, 2007 06:05
Hey, great tutorial! I have a problem though… when I paste the code in the Ubuntu terminal to connect to the Windows machine it gives me the following error:
Autoselected keyboard map en-us
ERROR: connect: Connection refused
Anyone have a solution for this?
I’ve also ping the IP of the Windows machine and it’s not reachable…
Thanks
Ed:The rdesktop can’t connect to the rdesktop port in theVM - ie, either you have a networking problemor remote access is disabled. Check the IP address, and remote acces settings, and perhaps disable your firewall temporarily.
July 5th, 2007 06:06
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July 5th, 2007 06:56
never mind…. i have figured it out. Wonderful guide!
July 5th, 2007 07:00
Hi, i have done everything in this tutorial and the windows menu does not appear in ubuntu, i’m using vmware workstation 6. Any ideas….Thank You
July 5th, 2007 07:35
Some questions in mind,
1 Can u use winxp in another computer(just a box winxp no one uses it)
2 can it be a second acount, being logged off?
Thanks
Ed:Yes and yes.
July 5th, 2007 07:57
first I had the problem Pat had, then the double quotes fixed that. Now I have the flickering taskbar like Martijn. Any help?
July 5th, 2007 08:54
Dude! I wish I’d known about this sooner!
July 5th, 2007 09:19
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July 5th, 2007 09:22
@Matt: I think those are the Ubuntu Studio icons.
–
When I try to install vmware-server package, apt-get says:
Setting up vmware-server (1.0.3-1) …
Can’t add port 902 (vmware-authd) to inetd.conf
dpkg: error processing vmware-server (–configure):
subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
vmware-server
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
What’s going on?
July 5th, 2007 10:08
I installed the vmware-server and rdesktop packages, but nothing new appears in Applications->System Tools :(. Any help? Thanks!
July 5th, 2007 10:09
I have the same issue as poster number 11.
Do I need to encase my username and password in anything? I’m trying:
rdesktop -A -s ‘c:\seamlessrdp\seamlessrdpshell.exe c:\windows\explorer.exe’ 172.16.155.128 -u James -p H)T#L
I just get a list of what you can do witht he rdesktop command when I try that. Anyone know what I’m doing wrong?
I’ve made sure the regedit is in the right place, the value is 1 and seamlessrdp is right off my c: drive.
I don’t know what I’m doing wrong.
PS
I can use Terminal Server Client to connect to my VM.
July 5th, 2007 10:18
double quotes… my bad.
July 5th, 2007 10:56
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July 5th, 2007 12:11
Ok, now I’m just connecting to a window$ xp laptop over wifi. When I run
rdesktop -A -s “C:\srs.exe C:\WINDOWS\NOTEPAD.exe” tux -u scottywz -p *removed*
on the host, it just brings up the login screen, and goes straight into the regular desktop in the rdp window, and notepad doesn’t even start.
Remote desktop is enabled, it’s a tablet pc.
I’m using the classic logon, and I don’t want to use the welcome screen. What’s wrong?
July 5th, 2007 12:25
Ok, enabling welcome screen & fast user switching did the trick.
July 5th, 2007 12:32
@ calvin and martijn:
i also had the same problem, but if you unlock the taskbar, you will be able to drag the bar. then, you can lock it again. however, mine my icons still flicker when i mouse over them..
July 5th, 2007 12:49
SeamlessRDP isn’t working for me. I just get a normal rdesktop window. I am using XGL and beryl, could this be the reason? If it is, any way to fix it?
July 5th, 2007 12:52
Haha, same fix as scottywz. Fast desktop switching needs to been enabled. great tutorial!
July 5th, 2007 13:14
Aww I only have XP Home.
July 5th, 2007 14:16
Hey, thank you for this tips, I made it work in Debian GNU/Linux and VMWare Workstation 5, and it runs fine, and very fast.
Thank you very much, very good howto, and now the people won’t have any pretext to switch gnu/linux.
Bye
July 5th, 2007 14:19
OK, so it’s working. Brilliant. Now how do I actually integrate this in to my work flow? Say I want to use Photoshop cs3 in Windows to manipulate a file that is on my Linux partition… What is the process for moving files back and forth?
July 5th, 2007 14:34
if you use special characters in tour password then you want to escape them when in bash otherwise it will read them
like password:
“(/&%”
would must be typed as:
“\(\/\&\%”
you escape a character by typing a backslash in front of it.
July 5th, 2007 14:40
For those of you with the blue desktop window taking up the whole screen, in the User Manager of the Control Panel, enbale the welcome screen and fast user switching. As soon as I did so, the box disapeared and the taskbar appeared on top of my KDE kicker. Nice
July 5th, 2007 14:45
@Tim: You should be able to still do it, just set up an invitation for remote support and give it a long period before it expires. I haven’t tried it but remote support is the same service as remote desktop.
July 5th, 2007 14:48
Actually works better RDPing to an actual network PC rather than the VM; quite a nice interface for virtualizing multiple OSes into a single client! I think i’m gonna set up a client on my windows-based media share (GB-PVR; the best PVR i’ve found) and let it be my one-stop shop for Windows-based tasks.
July 5th, 2007 16:11
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July 5th, 2007 16:34
Thanks for this tip, just tried it and it works beautifully. I;m not sure if this functionality would convince many to switch to Linux, but what the heck, at least now its out there that it can be done.
July 5th, 2007 16:58
Hello,
nice How-To!
However, can you also run DirectX-Games such as Battlefield2 with decent speed inside the VM?
I really doubt this - I have VMware Player installed and there is no chance to get this games up and working with decent speed (AMD64 3800+, 1 GB RAM, NVidia 6600GT).
Did you try this?
July 5th, 2007 20:30
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July 5th, 2007 21:04
Hey guys! Solved!
I also had a blue screen instead of explorer.
I did this:
“#91: For those of you with the blue desktop window taking up the whole screen, in the User Manager of the Control Panel, enable the welcome screen and fast user switching. As soon as I did so, the box disapeared and the taskbar appeared on top of my KDE kicker. Nice”
but everthing was already enabled, so it did’t work.
I start playing with User Manager and as soon as I tried to disable and enable “user switching” a message appeared saying that it could not be enabled because I had “no connected files” enabled (sorry, I am translating from Spanish), so I disabled it, enabled “user switching” and now everything works.
If you understand nothing just tick and untick and save “user switching” to see what happens.
Best luck!
July 5th, 2007 21:18
Sorry guys: i was wrong. It actually doesn’t work.
I was confused because I saw a window with explorer.
What really happens is that the new window opens with any application you have left open in the XP-VMWare.
Once you close that app, you can not access to anything else.
At least we have the clue that this should’t be related with colour depth, as I can see ok everything opened from the virtual machine.
July 6th, 2007 00:07
Anyone figure out how to fix the flickering start bar yet? I tried w/ and w/o beryl; no difference. My video card is an onboard intel.
July 6th, 2007 00:56
Connecting works but the -s argument does nothing for me; like many others, I see the full screen (minus desktop contents). If I execute the exact same command on the windows desktop while connected via rdesktop, I see the windows as they “should” appear.
So, clearly, there is a communication problem between rdesktop sending the shell command to be executed, and Windows executing it. Any ideas?
July 6th, 2007 02:14
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July 6th, 2007 02:59
Everything works for me, but the taskbar doesn’t seem to repaint properly. Every once and a while, I’ll see it paint correctly, but most of the time I just see a blue box. If I click over the spot where the start button is, the start menu will appear correctly. All applications launched appear correctly too.
Anybody have an idea why the taskbar isn’t painting correctly for me?
Thanks!
July 6th, 2007 03:19
now!
Getting a blue screen? that’s because you didn’t close the session in your VMWare.
you must close the session (not shutdown guest) and close VMware-console.
That’s all!
July 6th, 2007 03:45
Jim, my session was closed. This is a repaint issue for the taskbar only. Everything else repaints fine. I logged out of the vmware session and closed the vmware console.
I’m still trying to figure out why the task bar repaints incorrectly. I can provide a screen shot if that helps.
July 6th, 2007 04:11
I have followed all the steps. I had to change the single quotes to double to get the rdesktop session to launch. I now have a different problem. When it launches it launches in a full window with no desktop. I f I minimize this the start bar is there but doesn’t have anything on it, just a plain blue bar. I have compiz running on Ubuntu 7.04; would that make a difference?
July 6th, 2007 06:03
Here blue screen is gone with two extra accounts (logon-names)
I then logon in vmware with one, and logon with the remote command with the other account. The last account needs the regedit stuff. I then can close vmware program whitout shutting down the os
Tried JM’s option, but it failed.
Seems to me this software needs some programmer to help out.
It’s great and promising but not mature..or someone could try some automating scripts???
.
ps you can’t play direct-x games in emulation..no 3d support.
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July 6th, 2007 13:47
Nice article. I currently run CentOS 64, which includes Xen 3.0.3, ClarkConnect 5.0 and Win XP Pro on my Athlon 64 x2 box. You might mention that there are several alternatives to VMWare such as Xen.
I have also tried Qemu under Windows XP Pro to run Ubuntu and others.
Please mention the hardware support for virtualization that gives near-native performance to the guest systems.
July 6th, 2007 13:49
FYI. For those thinking about using something besides VMware I tried VBox and didn’t have any success.
July 6th, 2007 15:46
Does anybody know a fix for this:
rdesktop -A -s “c:\seamlessrdp\seamlessrdpshell.exe c:\windows\explorer.exe” 192.168.25.128 -u user -p password
Autoselected keyboard map en-us
ERROR: connect: Connection timed out
i supplied the correct user and password.
tried playing with the router settings/IP address with no luck.
Seemeslike somebody called MN had the same issue which he resolved but never said how (in the comments above).
Any help will be appreciated.
July 6th, 2007 16:59
Hi,
I have a new Dell with Ubuntu computer, Its great!
I think that your tutorial to run win-xp programs on Ubuntu, is the best solution for me.
The problem is that I’m new to Ubuntu, I’m making my first steps,
so I could not make things work - according to your tutorial.
Could you please make a detailed video/screenshot tutorial for this procedure,
so new users could fully understand how to make it done. (step by step)
Thanks, you have a great blog.
john.
July 6th, 2007 17:16
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July 6th, 2007 17:42
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July 6th, 2007 19:12
Why I want a Windows?
Ubuntu is better.
July 6th, 2007 20:33
So, if one can not play 3d-Windows games, why is the headline then “10 minutes to run every Windows app on your Ubuntu desktop” ???
Ed:because 99% of apps aren’t games. Keep in mind VMware could add 3D capabilities to its Linux apps like it does with its Mac ones.
And where is the difference to a simple installation of VMware player? With VMWare player, I also get I full blown Win XP in my Ubuntu desktop with a simple installation via Synaptic, which takes me less then 2 min.
Really, what am I missing? Where is the advantage of this solution compared to VMware player?
Thanks,
C.
Ed:Simple: VMware Server can create VMs, and leave the VM running when the app closes. Other than that, you could do the same with VMware player - but you’d still need to follow the steps the guide (eg, registry hack, enabling remote desktop, etc) for seamlessness
July 6th, 2007 22:43
Same issue as Trey here. Everything works, but the taskbar doesn’t seem to repaint properly. Most of the time I just see a blue bar across the bottom. I can not grab it, can not see anything on it but double click on it the start menu comes up and applications will launch.
July 6th, 2007 23:19
Thanks for the tutorial, I have still one problem, though:
Followed the instrauctions step by step, but when I enter the rdesktop -A -s ‘c:\seamlessrdp\seamlessrdpshell.exe c:\windows\explorer.exe’ xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx -u xxx -p xxx, all I get is “Autoselected keyboard map de” and after about 45 seconds a” ERROR: recv: Connection reset by peer”.
I can ping the machine alright and I have checked and double-checked the registry settings.
Any Ideas?
Greets
Rudi
July 6th, 2007 23:22
120phpHi>> Why I want a Windows?
Some of use have a significant software investment in windows programs because that’s what we use for our employer. Running Windoze programs is a good way to help convert us to linux.
Great article - can’t wait to try this!
July 7th, 2007 00:08
that sucks, my comment got booted even tho I had relevant links. I guess I didn’t agree with the Big Brother monitro
Ed:We generally approve all comments unless they’re profane, all caps, abusive, or spam. If your comment wasn’t any of the above, then it was an accident - feel free to re-post and it’ll get through.
July 7th, 2007 00:59
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July 7th, 2007 01:19
I’m trying to get it working with Win2k3 Server Standard Edition and XP Pro VM’s and having issues:
~$ sudo rdesktop -A -s ‘c:\SeamlessRDP\seamlessrdpshell.exe c:\windows\explorer.exe’ 192.168.4.20 -u Administrator -p password
Autoselected keyboard map en-us
ERROR: recv: Connection reset by peer
Turned off Windows Firewalls and using Feisty 64-bit as Host OS, wondering if there are compatibility issues?
July 7th, 2007 01:59
Would be nice if one could start audio from the remote session.
For now I can only play music if I go back to the vmware session and start the audio program there…then close vmare ..restart remote session…and I have it on the remote. A bit too much for daily use I guess.
Anyone for-seeing this issue implemented in the future? Or is there another way around??
Also I noticed maximizing windows is buggy.. can’t minimize afterwards. I use this in feisty 64 bit. Is this stable in 32 bit?
Thanks, great going otherwise.
July 7th, 2007 02:45
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July 7th, 2007 03:37
Nice to see you guys get this some more exposure, but I find it really uncool that you left out credits to the authors of the article at the Ubuntu Documentation Wiki/Forums, several steps are shown there exactly the same and were posted months ago…
Ed: The article have the same author - me, Mike MacCana! I mentioned the new article was an update of my old instructions in the article’s introduction. Check the edit histort at the following pages on help.ubuntu.com - my account is MikeMaccana
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/SeamlessVirtualization?action=info
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/WindowsXPUnderQemuHowTo?action=info
July 7th, 2007 04:31
I am trying to do the same thing on an XP Pro VM that is joined to a domain. Because of this, the options for ‘fast user switching’ and ’show welcome screen’ are not available.
I get the same as what others describe: When logging in I get a full desktop. The app does not even start. When running seamlessrdpshell.exe manually, *without* arguments, I get a seamless window telling me that no args were found. When starting it *with* args (e.g. notepad.exe), the app starts up within the RDP session.
If anybody has a work-around for this, please let me know. If I find one I’ll post it here..
Thanks!
July 7th, 2007 05:02
Hi:
I can run the VMware, the rdesktop, but not a progrm I run the whole desktop, any help?
July 7th, 2007 05:18
I have the same problem as Abhi:
rdesktop -A -s “c:\seamlessrdp\seamlessrdpshell.exe c:\windows\explorer.exe” IP -u user -p password
Autoselected keyboard map en-us
ERROR: connect: Connection timed out
Anyone has a suggestion how to fix that?
Thanks for the great guide.
July 7th, 2007 05:43
Nice. Can this be done with Windows 2000? I don’t happen to have XP, but I have Windows 2000.
July 7th, 2007 12:40
same issue as mn. what’s the solution?
July 7th, 2007 13:45
Figured it out - my firewall was enabled on the windows vm.
July 7th, 2007 19:14
why can’t I get this working with one windows account?
can anybody else?
please..I want my audio program running in the remote session in an easy way.
July 7th, 2007 19:28
works great, except for being rather slow at redrawing windows.
My major concern is that i get this error:
NOT IMPLEMENTED: SeamlessRDP SETICON1
in my terminal.
Any ideas?
July 7th, 2007 19:59
This works very well except I get a blue band on top of the windows taskbar that’s the same height as the taskbar.
[url]http://img457.imageshack.us/img457/8269/screenshotvm9.png[/url]
Anyone know how to get rid of the blue band?
July 7th, 2007 22:04
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July 7th, 2007 23:49
For those who are having problems finding the vmware-server in the package manager (like me), there is a tutorial/walk through on how to install vmware-server on feisty here: http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=2384779&postcount=52
Ed:Thanks for posting, but the tutorial above shouldn’t be necessary - packages are available directly via the Add/Remove program - just search for vmware-server and it will add the repository from Canonical, download and install VMware Server and the necessary drivers.
July 8th, 2007 01:46
How about SuSE10.1, i think it will be no problems to run it ?
July 8th, 2007 02:29
I think it’s a syntax thing.
In the instructions, the single quotes are formatted, so when copy and pasting the command to the terminal, just replace the quotes with ‘
July 8th, 2007 08:37
@Renan “Renan_S2″
This should work.
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/downloads/tools/rdclientdl.mspx
Ed:Thanks for your post, but unfortunately that’s only a remote desktop client - ie, you’d use it for running app on a Windows XP machine while you’re controlling them from Windows 98.
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July 9th, 2007 01:04
I must be missing something. First, it took 10 minutes just to download vmware server to install it. So you made want to rename this page. Second, once I got into the install it wanted a registration number to continue. Which, of course, I do not have and do not know how to get. This pretty much put an end to installing Vmware. Where does this registration number come from?
July 9th, 2007 01:17
After trying a second time to install Vmware I got a different window which gave me a link for the serial number. Of course, the serial number did not work (said it was invalid). So, I pretty much give up.
July 9th, 2007 21:00
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July 10th, 2007 01:09
I’m getting the same issue with task bar repaint running XP Pro on VMware workstation 6 on Ubuntu Feisty. Hoping for a work around. Everything works as other have mentioned but the task bar shows only as a blue band.
July 10th, 2007 01:34
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July 10th, 2007 04:39
I went through your other guide for using windows’ current install on ubuntu and it works nicely but when I tried this guide next, it just didn’t work
Same story as with one of the comments above, When I use the command you give in the end, I get some options about rdesktop. No taskbar.
July 10th, 2007 04:41
what’s the point exactly? just to show how clever you are? that you are more of an ultra-geek than the the other ultra-geeks?
why is ubuntu so great when it does not come with skype (as does mepis and kanotix), nor can you easily add skype. a few (lot) of people like skype
Ed:The point is to allow people to run the odd Windows app on their Linux desktop in a seamless manner. You can easily add Skype to Ubuntu by visiting www.skype.com, downloading the Ubuntu package, and clicking it. All dependencies will be fetched and Skype installed in Applications -> Internet
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July 10th, 2007 13:20
I figured the time-out issue. its really silly. i had installed windows xp home version instead of the windows xp professional. in windows xp home we cant “Allow users to connect remotely to this computer”. unfortunately i dont know any other work around other than to re-install windows xp professional.
if you already have xp professional look at the the allow remote users option under control panel>system>remote
another option is if you already have windows xp professional then try using that install installing of doing another install. use this guide http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/07/08/google-yahoo-both-working-on-next-generation-social-networks/
Abhi
July 10th, 2007 13:21
the link is for anybody who already has a dual boot system with linux and win xp professional
Abhi
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July 10th, 2007 23:31
Update, I got mine working.
I logged in to the guest XP system from the VMware window and moved the task bar to the far right side and then logged out. Now when I connect with rdesktop the taskbar appears on the right and paints properly.
I put your command in a shell script without the -p password part because I didn’t like having it in clear text there. So now when I run my shell script I get a full screen window with the Windows login prompt. After logging in, the window disappears and the task bar appears on the right.
One more thing. By leaving the task bar unlocked, I can shrink it down to a super narrow column on the right side of my screen. When I need a windows app, I move my cursor to the far right and pull the taskbar out.
Works great! Thanks.
gb
July 11th, 2007 05:33
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July 11th, 2007 08:04
PLEASE put in your tutorial that you need to disable the firewall inside the Windows Virtual Machine for the network. I couldn’t get it to work until I read a comment on that.
Right click the Local Area Network thing and disable the firewall on the last tab.
July 11th, 2007 16:31
sorry abt the wrong link in one of my previous comments, the one below is the correct link for using the existing windows installation from a dual boot machine
http://mazimi.wordpress.com/2007/06/24/virtualization-of-an-existing-physical-partition-of-windows-within-linux/
Abhi
July 11th, 2007 18:04
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July 11th, 2007 19:36
Great Guide!
I had difficulty with this guide with a Windows Domain authenticated WinXP vmware image. The ‘-s’ command wouldn’t work.
I found the following alterations to the guide would work:
1. Before logging off windows, Right click “Start”, then Explore>Start Menu>Programs>Startup. Right click in Explorer window, select New>Shortcut. Enter ‘c:\seamlessrdp\seamlessrdpshell.exe taskmgr’.
2. Log off windows.
3. Use this alternate rdesktop command line:
rdesktop -A -0 -r sound:local vm_ip_address
The Windows Domain login window will be full screen; but seamless operation will begin when the task manager appears. Minimize task manager and use the “Start” menu as usual.
July 12th, 2007 06:22
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July 13th, 2007 01:28
For those who have a flickering taskbar…
I noticed mine does also on the gnome window manager (metacity)
I don’t have this problem with other window-managers like kwin (kde window manager), beryl or xfwm4 (xfce window manager)
You can easily switch between window managers if you install beryl.
With beryl itself I experienced different problems like not being able to resize windows. But then again you can change window managers in just a click with the beryl manager.
Good luck!
.
(Feisty-64 & xp-sp2)
July 13th, 2007 02:06
Doesn’t show up! All I see is a drop down & a list of option that are available to the user!
July 13th, 2007 03:37
Thanks for sharing this information, I would certainly never have put this all together without this article.
I had a few issues that I had to overcome that I’d like to share:
1. I originally had the “Windows Classic” theme configured on the Windows side. It appears that the setup (I don’t know what link in the chain is to blame) doesn’t like the Windows Classic theme and causes the outline of the taskbar to continuously flash blue. Switching to the default Windows XP theme cleared that up. (You get the same flashing if you use the “-x modem” parameter to rdesktop.)
2. Originally the sound didn’t work for Windows apps. After some trial and error, I discovered that adding the “-r sound:remote” parameter allowed the VM to play sound itself. Someone else posted that using “-r sound:local” worked for them, but it didn’t work for me.
3. This might be a no-brainer, but you have to make sure that the “Terminal Services” service is running. After I had set up Windows in a VM originally, I went through and disabled all services I didn’t need, to speed booting and reduce the memory requirements of the VM. This ended up biting me because of this and the Themes service not running.
4. I have found that placing the taskbar at the top of the screen (or the bottom if you leave the Gnome panels on the top) works best for me, it is less likely to obscure things that I’m working on. It also takes less room than the left or right sides because the taskbar can be thinner. It also helps to disable the taskbar option “Keep the taskbar on top of other windows”.
5. It is also easier if you relocate the taskbar to your desired location while logged into Windows directly through the VM. If you try to do it through rdesktop, and your Linux and Windows taskbars are at the same location, the Windows taskbar does this weird “jumping” thing that makes it hard to pin down and move.
That’s pretty much about it. Everything works great, even YouTube videos launched from a Windows browser play back well (except for full screen mode). Of course if I’m going to do that I’ll just use Firefox natively on Linux– it was just an interesting test.
The only complaint that I have (which is apparently a limitation of the rdesktop program and not the excellent directions in the article) is that setting the icon of the Linux taskbar item is not supported. (That is apparently the source of the “NOT IMPLEMENTED: SeamlessRDP SETICON1″ error message that rdesktop puts out. It’s excellent that rdesktop does support placing each individual Windows window in the Linux taskbar — however, it would just be nice if the icon was set, too.
We’ll see how this setup survives the “real world” stress test when I implement it at work next week.
July 13th, 2007 04:05
@yossi: When the VM first boots, press escape to go into the boot menu and select CD-ROM drive. I’ve had the same problem in the past.
July 13th, 2007 06:59
Hey, when I run rdesktop -A -s ‘c:\seamlessrdp\seamlessrdpshell.exe c:\windows\explorer.exe’ IPAddress -u user -p password
(substituting the ip address), all I get is a huge list of usage options for rdesktop.
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July 13th, 2007 20:11
Thanks TomViolin for the ‘ -r sound:remote ‘ option.
Works & is good enough for Itunes
But Winamp & Albumplayer are skipping sound with this option.
(They don’t do this in the vmware session)
Are there any known performance tweaks for sound???
.
(Arman: double quotes:
sudo rdesktop -A -s “c:\seamlessrdp\seamlessrdpshell.exe c:\windows\explorer.exe” IPAddress -u user -p password”)
.
for sound
sudo rdesktop -A -s “c:\seamlessrdp\seamlessrdpshell.exe c:\windows\explorer.exe” -r sound:remote IPAddress -u user -p password
July 13th, 2007 21:25
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July 13th, 2007 22:52
I can’t get this to work every time. Maybe about one in ten. The rest of the time, if I try it in the terminal, I get “Autoselected keyboard map en-us” then after several minutes “ERROR: connect: No route to host.”
Any help? I’d really like to get this running for work. What am I doing wrong?
July 13th, 2007 23:33
And how do you print from a networked printer this way?
July 14th, 2007 04:56
Ok, I got the printer thing figured out from here.
Still trying to figure out the unreliability, although I’m now up to about 50/50,
July 14th, 2007 09:15
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July 15th, 2007 00:22
Same problem as #175. Have been over it a dozen times. Anyone have any thoughts
Hey, when I run rdesktop -A -s ‘c:\seamlessrdp\seamlessrdpshell.exe c:\windows\explorer.exe’ IPAddress -u user -p password
(substituting the ip address), all I get is a huge list of usage options for rdesktop.
Ed:The quotes are wrong - WordPress changed them into the wrong key earlier. We’ve fixed it now - try again and it’ll be fine.
July 16th, 2007 18:01
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July 18th, 2007 14:46
what does “WARNING: Remote desktop does not support colour depth 24; falling back to 16″ mean? And how do I fix it?
July 18th, 2007 19:42
In the second to last step:
Back in Ubuntu, open a Terminal, and run:
rdesktop -A -s ‘c:\seamlessrdp\seamlessrdpshell.exe c:\windows\explorer.exe’ IPAddress -u user -p password
substituting the IP address you noted earlier.
what exactly is -u user -p password?
Is that your windows username and password?
July 19th, 2007 03: