Potential issues during use

A small number of applications might need slight modification to work fully with DaDesktop

Issues during Fresh Start cloning and fixes available

Most applications function perfectly normally when prepared in the Fresh Start machine while using DaDesktop (DD). However, a couple of applications don't work as expected due to the cloning process and require a few extra steps to operate normally.

• Oracle Database Server - Need to change the hostname from the duplicated one to 127.0.0.1
• Hyper-V server - Hyper-V faces issues with duplicate MAC addresses when the External switch is enabled, after cloning from the FreshStart machine
• Google Chrome - Chrome might not start correctly on cloned machines due to a linked profile to the Fresh Start machine, if the Fresh Start machine wasn't shut down completely during cloning
• WSL - Windows System for Linux - During testing, we have found that DaDesktop machines with a WSL installation are not portable, i.e., 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 we presume that Windows makes an assumption about the hardware it is installed on, and if moved to another server, it causes a problem. As WSL is rarely used for training (typically Linux is used directly), this issue hasn't been fully investigated yet
• Issues where a trial software licence tracks usage through the MAC address - In such a case, the licence is tied to a MAC address, and when the machine is cloned, it appears the licence has 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 when Hyper-V and VirtualBox are used together (This happens not only with DaDesktop)

  Problem: Extremely slow VirtualBox on Windows machines, making it nearly impossible to conduct a course, but the solution is quite 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 applied as mentioned above, otherwise duplicate MAC addresses will cause slow machine performance, booting problems, and other odd behaviour.

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