Potential issues during use

A small number of applications may require slight modification to work fully with DaDesktop

Issues during Fresh Start cloning and fixes available

Most applications work absolutely normally when prepared in the Fresh Start machine when using DaDesktop (DD). But there are one or two applications that due to the cloning process do not work as expected, and need a few extra steps to allow normal operation.

• Oracle Database Server - Need to change hostname from that that will be duplicated to 127.0.0.1
• Hyper-V server - Hyper-V has a problem with duplicate mac addresses with the External switch enabled, when cloned from the FreshStart machine
• Google Chrome - Chrome may not start correctly on cloned machines due to a linked profile to the Fresh Start machine, if Fresh Start machine was not shutdown fully during cloning
• WSL - Windows System for Linux - During testing we have found that DaDesktop machines with an WSL installation are not portable, ie moving a DaDesktop machine that has a WSL installation, will not boot successfully when moved to another DD server. The reason for this is unknown, but presume that Windows makes an assumption about the hardware it is installed on and if moved to another server causes a problem. As WSL is rarely used for training (normally Linux is just used directly), this issue has not been fully investigated as yet
• Issues where a trial software licence uses the MAC address to track the licence - In this case, the licence was tied to a MAC address, and when the machine was cloned, it appeared the licence had already been activated and used up.
• Applications that require licences may need to be added after FreshStart has been cloned.
   

Other Issues that may occur when using DaDesktop

• Very slow Virtualbox seen when using Hyper-V and VirtualBox (This occurs not only when using DaDesktop)

  Problem: Very slow VirtualBox on Windows Machines, leading to almost impossibility to deliver a course, but the solution is super simple:-
  Solution 1: Uninstall Hyper-V Virtualisation in Windows:

  https://www.wintips.org/fix-virtualbox-running-very-slow-in-windows-10-11/

  Solution 2: Ensure the workaround with Hyper-V Server is used as above, otherwise duplicate mac addresses are used which leads to slow machine usage and booting and other strange behaviour.

• Unable to type certain characters ie Apostrophes / Quotation Marks, Inverted Commas, into DaDesktop machine.