Memory/CPU Optimization in Citrix

Citrix Presentation Server 4.0 introduced two resource optimization features that help increase scalability by as much as 25% and ensure a smoother user experience. These two features, memory optimization and CPU optimization, are distinct and function in unique ways. Memory and CPU optimization are not enabled by default.Memory OptimizationWhen an application starts, the operating system maps application DLLs to the base memory address space. The...

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Making Virtual IP Addresses Available to Applications in Citrix

Some applications, such as CRM and CTI, use an IP address for addressing, licensing, identification, or other purposes and thus require a unique IP address or a loopback address in sessions. Other applications may bind to a static port, which, because the port is already in use, causes the failure of multiple attempts to launch an application in a multiuser environment. For such applications to function correctly in a XenApp environment, a unique IP address is required for each device.Use the virtual IP address feature to assign a static range...

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Citrix Access Gateway

Citrix Access Gateway is a secure application access solution that provides administrators granular application-level policy and action controls to secure access to applications and data while allowing users to work from anywhere. It gives IT administrators a single point of control and tools to help ensure compliance with regulations and the highest levels of information security across and outside the enterprise. At the same time, it empowers users with a single point of access—optimized for roles, devices, and networks—to the enterprise applications...

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XenApp Content Redirection

I see a lot of people struggling with content redirection. The issues that people normally have are understanding what it is, how it works, and it’s limitations. Hopefully this blog post will clear it up.What it is Content redirection is a XenApp technology which, as the name implies, allows content to be passed from either the client to the server, or from the server to the client.In real terms – for client to server – this is the ability to double-click...

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Keyboard Shortcuts for VMware Workstation

VMware has a set of shortcut keys or hotkeys for quick control over your virtual machine. This is a list of them.Ctrl+BPower on the Virtual MachineCtrl+DEdit the Virtual Machine SettingsCtrl+EPower off the Virtual MachineCtrl+GGrab keyboard input focusCtrl+NCreate a new Virtual MachineCtrl+OOpen a Virtual MachineCtrl+PEdit User PreferencesCtrl+RReset Virtual MachineCtrl+ZSuspend the Virtual MachineCtrl+F4Close the Virtual MachineCtrl+AltUngrab Input focusCtrl+Alt+Enter      Switch to Full Screen ModeCtrl+TabSwitch between...

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Change the DHCP IP Address Range for VMware NAT

VMware Workstation includes a network utility that allows you to manage the virtual networks. Typically virtual machines will use NAT (Network Address Translation) to automatically assign a virtual IP address that hides behind your host address, but the default range of 192.168.200.0/24 may not work for everybody.You can change this address range to anything you like easily. Note that you should not have virtual machines running during...

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How to Change the Virtual Machine Boot Device in Virtual PC

If you’re trying to install an OS or are testing out boot disks, you might be wondering how to change the boot device. Here’s the quick and easy technique to change it. What we’re going to do is go into the virtual machine’s BIOS and tweak it there. Tweaking the Boot DeviceFirst, click on the Ctl+Alt+Del button in your virtual machine so it can reboot. When the POS comes up (as shown in the image below), you should press...

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Make Virtual Machines Always Hide To The System Tray in VMware Workstation

My favorite feature in the latest version of VMware Workstation is that you can run virtual machines entirely in the background. This is most useful for “appliance” machines that you won’t actually use from the prompt, but through a web browser or ssh client.The only problem is that when you click the close button on the VMware window, you get a prompt saying “Some virtual machines are still powered on. You can continue to run these virtual...

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Turn Off Debug Mode in VMWare Workstation 6 Beta

VMWare Workstation is great. The version 6 beta has even more awesome features…  but it’s slower than dirt, because debugging mode is turned on by default.Thankfully there’s a quick and easy trick to turn off debugging, which will increase the speed a lot.Here’s what we’re going to do:Open an explorer window and browse down to the VMWare install folder. (C:\Program Files\Vmware\VMware Workstation) You’ll see two folders, one named bin and...

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How to Increase the VMWare Boot Screen Delay

If you’ve wanted to try out a bootable CD or USB flash drive in a virtual machine environment, you’ve probably noticed that VMWare’s offerings make it difficult to change the boot device. We’ll show you how to change these options. You can do this either for one boot, or permanently for a particular virtual machine.Even experienced users of VMWare Player or Workstation may not recognize the screen above – it’s the virtual machine’s BIOS, which...

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How to Boot a VMware Virtual Machine from a USB Drive

Do you have an OS installed on your USB thumb drive? Booting from it in a VM is now possible, you’ll just have to use a simple trick to get it to work.All we need to do is to load the Plop ISO in VMware, attach and enable the USB drive in VMware, and finally select the USB option in Plop Boot Manager to boot from the USB.So, visit the Plop boot manager download site.Click Download, download the latest version, save it in a location, and unzip...

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Allow Access to a VMware Virtual Machine(NAT) From Another Computer

If you are running a virtual machine on your computer, you may want to access that virtual machine from another computer. Let’s use an example: Say you have an Ubuntu virtual machine with Apache running on port 80, and you want to show other people on your network to access the website you are hosting.We’re going to assume that the virtual machine is using NAT, and has been assigned an IP address of 192.168.23.128.First open the Manage Virtual...

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