This is a vSphere 5.1. Windows 7 non-domain. All necessarily settings in guest Windows were changed to disable any auto-lock functionality. However, when I close VIClient (vSphere native client) Console session, it also lock my Windows session. When I open Console session again, I see login screen. When I kill VMware Tools, it becomes to normal. Any ideas on how to avoid that behaviour?
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The settings corresponds for that is tools.guest.desktop.autolock=false
. This is under VM settings => Options => Advanced => General => Configuration Parameters.
In my particular case (using knife-vsphere) I was able to create cplugin:
require 'rbvmomi'
class KnifeVspherePlugin
def reconfig_vm(target_vm)
puts "Set ConfigSpec.GuestAutoLockEnabled = false"
extraConfig = []
extraConfig << { :key => "tools.guest.desktop.autolock", :value => "false" }
target_vm.ReconfigVM_Task(:spec => RbVmomi::VIM.VirtualMachineConfigSpec(:extraConfig => extraConfig)).wait_for_completion
end
end
Another way using PowerCLI would be:
GetVM -Name vm1 | New-AdvancedSetting -Name "tools.guest.desktop.autolock" -Value "false" -Confirm:$false -Force
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