RemoteFX Features for Windows 8 and Windows Server 2012

re: RemoteFX Features for Windows 8 and Windows Server 2012

Tyson Nero — Tue, 23 Apr 2013 03:23:38 GMT

There are some conflicting answers here.

Can you use RemoteFX on a Windows 8 Hyper-v host? Does it have to be Enterprise edition?

re: RemoteFX Features for Windows 8 and Windows Server 2012

Andrew Fryer — Thu, 18 Apr 2013 08:47:33 GMT

Is there any chance you can cover off OpenGL support in RemoteFX, as a lot of CAD solutions rely on this industry standard for GPU acceleration, and there doesn't seem to be anything on TechNet about this

re: RemoteFX Features for Windows 8 and Windows Server 2012

ClausM — Mon, 10 Dec 2012 15:03:46 GMT

Anyone :) ?

re: RemoteFX Features for Windows 8 and Windows Server 2012

ClausM — Thu, 06 Dec 2012 15:29:25 GMT

Hello,

We plan to implement a virtualized Session-based RDS. A physical host running Windows Server 2012, and inside a Virtual machine with RD Session Host role service installed. What OS should the virtual machine have? According to your article Windows 8 Enterprise has all the features. Is it recommended to use this OS as the RD Session Host? Or should we just use Windows Server 2012 on the virtual machine?

Thanks.

re: RemoteFX Features for Windows 8 and Windows Server 2012

Andrew — Wed, 05 Dec 2012 13:34:34 GMT

... or it was meant that windows 7 (with rdp 8.0) as hyper-v guest can now be used as rdp server opposed to previous necessity of using vGPU for this scenario?

re: RemoteFX Features for Windows 8 and Windows Server 2012

Andrew — Tue, 04 Dec 2012 16:19:07 GMT

How can I redirect USB wia RemoteFX to a Windows 7 RDP server?

Windows 7 is Enterprise edition with SP1 and RDP 8.0 update installed (KB2574819 and KB2592687).

RDP client is another windows 7 machine with usb device selected in remotefx section of the client. it can successfully redirect usb device to windows 8, but can't on windows 7 SP1 Ent.

All are physical machines. What can I be missing?

re: RemoteFX Features for Windows 8 and Windows Server 2012

dgeddes [MSFT] — Fri, 30 Nov 2012 21:17:46 GMT

You can only add a vGPU to a VM if the VM is hosted on Windows Server 2012. RemoteFX vGPU is not available if you're using Client Hyper-V in Windows 8.

re: RemoteFX Features for Windows 8 and Windows Server 2012

Stanislas Quastana — Thu, 29 Nov 2012 16:23:50 GMT

@Skyman : you need a graphic card with a DirectX 11 GPU on your host with the latest drivers for Windows Server 2012/8.

Then in Hyper-V Setting, you have to check that this GPU is recognized as a RemoteFX GPU.

Then you should be able to add a vGPU to a Windows 8 Enterprise VM using Powershell (There is a bug in Hyper-V Manager GUI) with the following commands :

Import-Module RemoteDesktopServices

Add-VMRemoteFx3dVideoAdapter -VMName MyWin8VMName

Hope this help !! (it works perfectly on my Platform)

re: RemoteFX Features for Windows 8 and Windows Server 2012

skyman_at_iastate.edu — Tue, 27 Nov 2012 15:42:39 GMT

Yes I would like the vGPU but the only optional hardware I see is SCSI Controller, Network Adapter, Legacy Network Adapter, and Fibre Channel Adapter.

re: RemoteFX Features for Windows 8 and Windows Server 2012

TP [] — Mon, 26 Nov 2012 23:00:00 GMT

Hi skyman,

You do not need to install RemoteFX on Windows 8 Enterprise, it is part of RDP 8.0 which is built-in. If you need to use vGPU then you need to Add the RemoteFX 3D Video Adapter in the settings for the VM in Hyper-V Manager.

-TP