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→A Guided Tour of the Virtual Machine Connection Tool
== A Guided Tour of the Virtual Machine Connection Tool ==
Once VMConnect has established a connection with a virtual machine a dialog will appear containing the desktop or text based console of the running guest operating system. If the virtual machine is not currently running, a black screen will be presented displaying text which reads "The virtual machine "machine name" is turned off" as shown in the following figure:
[[Image:hyper-v_vmconnect_virtual_machine_off.jpg|The Hyper-V Connection Tool connected to a powered off virtual machine]]
Running along the top edge of the VMConnect window containing the following menu options:
* '''File''' - Provides access to the settings for the virtual machine to which the tool is connected and provide the option to exit from the tool. Note that exiting only closes the VMConnect. The virtual machine will continue to run in the background.
* '''Action''' - Provides option to send Ctrl-Alt-Del sequence to the guest operating system, start, shutdown, save, pause, reset, snapshot or revert the virtual machine. An option is also available to insert the Integration Services CD image into the virtual machine so that the services can be installed on the guest operating system. Note that if the virtual machine is not currently running, most of these options will be disabled.
* '''Media''' - Provides the option to "insert" an ISO image into a CD/DVD drive assigned to the virtual machine. Also allows physical CD/DVD drives on the host to be captured for use by the virtual machine and to eject currently mounted media. An option is also provided to specify a .vfd image to be presented to the virtual machine as a floppy disk.
* '''Clipboard''' - Allows text from the clipboard of the parent partition to be pasted into the guest operating system. Also allows a screenshot of the current image on the screen to be taken. The resulting image is placed into the clipboard of the parent partition.
* '''View''' - Allows the display to be switched to full screen mode. When in this mode a small toolbar appears at the top of the screen providing options to exit or revert to windowed mode. If the push-pin is clicked, the toolbar recedes out of view. Moving the mouse pointer to the top of the screen causes the toolbar to reappear. This menu also controls whether the VMConnect toolbar appears beneath the menu bar.
If the VMConnect menu bar is visible, options which are available in the menu system are available at the click of a button. Toolbar buttons provide the ability to send Ctrl-Alt-Del, start, turn off, shutdown, save, pause, reset, snapshot and revert the virtual machine.
== Virtual Machine Connection Keyboard Accelerators ==
By default, many Windows keyboard control sequences issued when focus is in the Virtual Machine Connection Tool window will still be intercepted and interpreted by the parent Windows Server 2008 operating system. This behavior can be modified to a certain extent by specifying rules for control key sequence handling, details of which were covered in the [[A Tour of the Hyper-V Manager Tool]] chapter. In addition to these configuration options, the Virtual Machine Connection Tool provides a number of accelerators which are mapped to real Windows control sequences. Use of these accelerators allows actions to be performed within the guest environment without having to worry about whether the parent partition will intercept the key sequences:
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Ctrl+Alt+Del
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Ctrl+Alt+End
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Switches to the security screen providing options to lock, switch user, change password, log off or run the Windows task manager.
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Alt+Tab
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Alt+Page Up
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Switches between running desktop applications
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Alt+Esc
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Alt+Insert
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Switches between running applications in launch order
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Ctrl+Esc
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Alt+Home
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Invokes the Windows Start menu
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None
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Ctrl+Alt+Pause
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Switch Virtual Machine Connection Tool to and from full screen mode
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None
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Ctrl+Alt+Left Arrow
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Releases the mouse and keybaord focus from the Virtual Machine Connection Tool.
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