XenDesktop With Windows Live Movie maker

[mplexo]

Hi,

 

We have just rolled out 30 XenDesktop PC's.

 

Our staff require, "Windows Live Movie Maker" to be installed.

But since there is no GPU in the VDI box. IT won't run.

 

Is there any workaround, or tweaks we can do. Which would allow us to run it?

 

Thanks,

Martin,

[jamesfed]

Have a look into Microsoft RemoteFX - its expensive but allows GPUs to be used with Virtual Machines (Windows 7 SP1 only).

[mplexo]

We are unable to add any GPUs the the servers.

 

Is there anyway to modify, movie maker?

 

Or is there another product we could try.

[jamesfed]

Have a look here - Video Editing with Citrix HDX on a Linux Thin Client - YouTube

 

It would work with your XenDesktop VDI as well

[radman12]

i am having the same problems with xendesktop, any solutions?

[imiddleton25]

what hypervisor are you using we use xenserver and after the upgrade to version 6 have the option to assign gpu to the vm.

[radman12]

i am using vmware esx enterprise as the hypervisor.

[mplexo]

I'm still searching for a way, we are unable to assign a GPU due to cost.

Unless we can get this to work, we won't be able to roll out our VDI solution.

[jamesfed]

I'm still searching for a way, we are unable to assign a GPU due to cost.

Unless we can get this to work, we won't be able to roll out our VDI solution.

 

Did take a look at the video I posted above?

 

While its not movie maker it does give you the option to use other movie editing software (naturaly theres the cost but at least you still get to roll out VDI).

[mplexo]

The staff here, will only agree if we can get movie maker to work.

We have adobe premiere running, but they don't want to use it.

[jamesfed]

The staff here, will only agree if you can get movie maker to work.

We have adobe premiere running, but they don't want to use it.

 

Your options are limited to none in that case - it is a bit of a U-turn from your 3rd post asking if there were any other software alternatives.

 

Either way have you considered a hybrid of both conventional PCs and Thin Clients? next year we will be moving to about 1/3rd full fat PCs and 2/3rds thin clients.

[mplexo]

We tried other software, but the staff refused to try it.

 

At one point we were running thin clients for the whole school. But later moved to 3/4 PC, and the rest the old thin clients.

We were hoping to try VDI, as it's much easier to manage, that the conventional PC's

[jamesfed]

We tried other software, but the staff refused to try it.

 

At one point we were running thin clients for the whole school. But later moved to 3/4 PC, and the rest the old thin clients.

We were hoping to try VDI, as it's much easier to manage, that the conventional PC's

 

Yep its a case of Rock - You - Hard place.

 

Just have to keep one classroom of conventional PCs around.

[anthonyd]

Long shot - but does it work if you hold down the shift key when you try to launch WMM? That workaround used to work for Movie Maker when launching through remote dekstop - no idea if it will here though.

[radman12]

i am in the same boat. shift key does nnothing when launching wmm. Its too bad it wont work. i have yet to try the software mentioned above. This gpu thing is really rendering my vdi rollout as well. It wont run microsoft Kodu either because its cant find a pixel shader. I guess vdi is not for everyone, but damn seems like it hsould be able to run this stuff.

[andrew-virtusolve]

With ESXi as your underlying hypervisor you need to be able to present a GPU capable of running it to the underlying hardware, in vSphere 5 VMware has added 3D support to the Virtual Hardware to enable the use of Aero - a by product of which should be (may be?!) the ability to run WMM as it is a different virtual graphics card - I will test this on our lab and confirm for you

[zenithtwc]

Think its kind of strange they created a work around for Google Earth(HDX Optimization Pack for Google Earth - Citrix eDocs) D3D9.dll, but they have nothing going on for windows photo viewer, windows movie maker, etc.

[zenithtwc]

You can install Windows Movie Maker 2.6 on XenDesktop 5 or Higher, and it doesn't need DirectX to work. It looks like Microsoft know the image is virtual machine, and doesn't want to install it. You will get the error message saying that this can be installed on Windows Vista only. When in fact if you install it on a physical box it will install just fine onto Windows 7. I had to trick the virtual machine to think it was already installed to by pass the system checks. I have attached the register file in a Zip file. Basically I gathered up all the register keys, so that I would think it was installed on the virtual machine. First you will have to import the register files onto your Xendesktop Image. Next you go to: Download Windows Movie Maker 2.6 from Official Microsoft Download Center, and download the Movie Maker 2.6 MSI. Place this file onto the C:\ drive; I set the register keys look for the installer there. Next run the MSI, and the installer setup page bring you to the uninstall and repair window. Repair the installed, and you are all done. Movie Maker will not run from XenCenter(requires sound), nor will it run from RDP. You will have to provision the Image to see that it works.

Windows_Movie_Maker.zip

[SYNACK]

Hmm, I think I did something similar but much more simple by hacking the OS check to allow it to run under MPS.

 

https://onedrive.live.com/redir?resid=2C46D822AE80AB0%211609

[SYNACK]

Think its kind of strange they created a work around for Google Earth(HDX Optimization Pack for Google Earth - Citrix eDocs) D3D9.dll, but they have nothing going on for windows photo viewer, windows movie maker, etc.

 

Oh and that is not strange, OSS people have a turgid one for Google but don't like MS at all. I just had to use Orca.msi from the Windows SDK to yank a bunch of the requirements from the install but stuff that relies on DX and even more so stuff that relies on OpenGL works terribly on stuff that does not have an accelerator. Had to deal with some software that was the definition of feature creep, a word reading program that requires openGL2, a massive burden for something that barely uses graphics but makes it undeployable on anything not built for gaming despite how powerful the CPU it (i7).

 

DX does degrade much better and should work allrightish and at least the acceleration was needed to start with. I'd just pull the requirements off the MSI and hope that the CPU can keep up. With OpenGL you can uyse MESA but that has ''TERRIBLE'' performance on a high end CPU. Remote FX via a hyper-V server is probably the best bet, even if that does add an extra $1000 on to a $20k project to get going.