#Making dosbox fullscreen code

Could we lock a particular user down via GPO to only be able to log on to the host and then connect to a VM (without the ability to modify anything)? Almost like kiosk mode on the host. Obviously, we really want to avoid this as it could end in disaster.

#Making dosbox fullscreen code

When we move onto the 2012 server we’ll have rewritten the code so that it runs via scheduled task and no-one apart from me has to touch the server.Ģ) The last person on-site logs on to the Hyper-V host, goes into the VM that way and runs the code. As far as we can see, we only have two options:ġ) Ideally, try to suppress the NTVDM error so that the last person on-site can remote into the server and run the task. We’ve tried applying MS hotfixes to the problem but to no avail.

The ntvdm error also still shows up in Event Viewer when you run the script directly from the machine, but it doesn’t cause any issues. However, this happens about 200 times during execution, so its not feasible for someone to sit through it closing all the error boxes. This doesn’t actually cause the script to crash, but rather just wait for input. Part of the code requires it to go into fullscreen mode, which RDP doesn’t like. The big issue now though is we can’t run the overnight script via RDP.

I am currently in the process of virtualising the 2003 server in Hyper-V – not an ideal situation obviously, I’d rather move straight to a 2012 VM, but our programmer needs time to re-write all the code to run on an 圆4 system and I want to move off of the 10 year old hardware in the meantime. They couldn’t run it via scheduled tasks as it needed to be run in interactive mode which would require someone logging on anyway, and our closing time is not written in stone and can change. Before I joined the organisation, this was being kicked off manually on the 2003 server every night by the last person to leave the premises (I was horrified too, don't worry). We have an overnight run which is a piece of legacy 16-bit code. I’ve got a tricky problem and I’m out of ideas: