Hyper-V RDP access - Integrate cloudbase's changes

[ghost]

Hi,

Cloudbase did a lot of work to make sure FreeRDP-WebConnect also can connect to Hyper-V consoles. It would be great if you could RI their changes so that we have a single repository which is up to date.

You can find their changes here: https://github.com/cloudbase/FreeRDP-WebConnect

Cheers,

[winstonhong]

Thanks for cloudbase's great work to make FreeRDP-WebConnect eligible for the connection to Hyper-V consoles.

I follow the guidance provided by Fcarlier to compile and install both FreeRDP-WebConnect and FreeRDP provided by GitHub/cloudbase in Ubuntu 12.04.2 LTS (Precise Pangolin, ubuntu-12.04.2-desktop-i386.iso released in February 2012) .

http://fcarlier.azurewebsites.net/post/Web-Based-Remote-Console-Access-to-Hyper-V-VMs1

When I access the remote Windows 7 desktop (Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI)) using cloudbase FreeRDP-WebConnect and port 3389,

I met the same issue #7 (screen refresh/repaint with windows 7 RDP session) opened by MvdLande last year.

#7

However, it seems that the demo in the youtube has no issue #7 (screen refresh/repaint with windows 7 RDP session).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lZpRLtHV0iY

Fcarlier suggested that PCB (vmID): You can obtain this ID by executing the following Windows PowerShell command on your Hyper-V server.

However, it seems that Windows 7 has no such feature for creating Hyper-V server and obtaining PCB (vmID).

Another issue is that wsgate server "crashes" every 4 hours, that is, we cannot access wsgate using web browser.

I only know that the FreeRDP project is ongoing. Does the project "FreeRDP-WebConnect/wsgate" discontinue?

If I use Ubuntu command xfreerdp -u usename -p password hostip to connect remote Windows 7 desktop, it shows a disconnection error: Unable to get current time zone rule.

Instead I can use FreeRDP-WebConnect/wsgate Firefox web browse to connect remote Windows 7 desktop.

However, if I use sudo apt-get install freerdp-x11, I can use Ubuntu command xfreerdp -u username -p password host_ip_address to connect remote Windows 7 desktop. The issue # 7 does not exist -- Screen can refresh/repaint smoothly.
This means that screen refreshing/repainting issue existing in the interaction between FreeRDP and FreeRDP-WebConnect/wsgate. The ACK response packet was sent back to FreeRDP client, but FreeRDP-WebConnect/wsgate fails to deliver the screen refreshing packets to web browser.

I am looking forward to some guidance or hint on solving these two issues or the potential root cause of these two issues related to wsgate (FreeRDP-WebConnect). If I fix these two issues, I will share the source code with the community.

[alexpilotti]

Hi @pin17931,

We just merged our work here and we're also co-mantaining this repository, so from now on all Cloudbase work will land directly here.

@winstonhong: in our tests the refresh issue does not happen. Could it be related to an old version of FreeRDP?

I'm closing this issue as it refers to an obsolete codebase.
Can please check the updated version and reopen the issue if you still experience it?

Thanks,

Alessandro