RDP and Media Center Woes
For the last 18 months or so, I’ve been running a Windows7 Media Center inside a KVM virtual machine. Windows7 Ultimate x32 is the version of MS-Windows in use thanks to a free copy after attending the local Windows launch party. I manage recordings through either an RDP session or Remote-Potato. RDP is the native Windows Remote Desktop Protocol. I do not watch or listen to any media over this connection. The only purpose is to managed and schedule recordings. That’s it.
I’ve been mostly happy with this setup. It works, until …
Broken RDP
About a month ago, perhaps a little longer, the ability to use RDP with the Media Center Application stopped working. I think it was a patch from Microsoft that broke it, since that VM is not used for anything else. It and only gets patches from Microsoft. There is no, zero, nadda, 3rd party software on it.
I should point out that KVM uses VNC for console access and that is working. I’d just prefer to not use the virtualization-based tool, since it requires higher levels of access than a simple RDP session does, at least with my current KVM management setup. The VNC connection does work to access 7MC, but provides a warning about the video card not having enough RAM.
Help Me
So, I’m asking for help from the readers here. My attempts to find a solution that didn’t involve swapping out a DLL (probably illegal) or using some 3rd party remote desktop have failed. I’m hoping for a registry hack.
Long term, I expect the solution will be to move the VM to a new KVM virtual machine host that supports Spice Remote Desktop protocol. Spice seems to have enough bandwidth to provide a good remote desktop without using anything from Microsoft. It is completely dependent on KVM-spice integration.
Please, got any ideas?
