Changes between Version 2 and Version 3 of GRAPHIC2 Laptop VM Configuration

Timestamp:

11/18/13 17:26:35 (11 years ago)

Author:

Nick Holden

Comment:

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GRAPHIC2 Laptop VM Configuration

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 The Windows host systems need VIX API installing to give the vmrun utility.
 
-Put the 'Virtual Machines' directory into "C:\Users\Public" and then create a shortcut to use vmrun.exe to start VMWare Player and launch the relevant VM. If that shortcut were in the 'All Users' startup directory it would start automatically. But putting shortcuts in the 'All Users' directory requires admin permission. DONE.
+Put the 'Virtual Machines' directory into "C:\Users\Public" and then create a shortcut in the All Users 'Programs/Startup' directory to use vmrun.exe to start the relevant VM, using the nogui flag to start the VM without opening a VMWare Player interface. Nothing for the nurses to click on by mistake. 
 
-The server needs suspending before the laptop is shutdown. This is accomplished with a small batch file that calls vmrun.exe to suspend the server, but it must be run as a local admin. So the laptops have additional admin users for Nick, Sue, Jay and Sue C. For UHL, Caroline Hughes has authorised the use of local admin rights. If, in future, a solution can be found to run vmrun.exe without admin rights, this can be changed.
+The server needs suspending before the laptop is shutdown. This is accomplished with a small batch file that calls vmrun.exe to suspend the server, but it must be run as a local admin. So the laptops have granted admin rights for Nick, Sue, Jay and Sue C. For UHL, Caroline Hughes has authorised the use of local admin rights. If, in future, a solution can be found to run vmrun.exe without admin rights, this can be changed.
 
 Laptops must be shut down using the script not the power button. Otherwise there is a risk of data loss because the guest system will have MySQL shut down without warning, and possibly data will be cached in memory and not yet written to disk.