Running code in Virtual Machine

Help
,
1

Hey!

So I’m running a project from a virtual machine. When I run it and leave the VM window open, it runs perfectly, but once I minimize the VM window, I get selector errors. It’s like once I minimize the VM I can’t use activities that use UI.

I never had this problem before, anyone can help?

Thanks

2

if you need this to work, you need to use all activities that can run in the background or it will error out…

3

I just found the solution to the problem. Executing Tasks in a Minimized RDP Window

Thanks!

1 Like
4

nice, but keep in mind that only background activities will work…

6

I’ve got kind of an irregular solution to this same issue.

Enter the following code in a text file and change the extension to .bat

for /f “skip=1 tokens=3” %%s in (‘query user %USERNAME%’) do (
%windir%\System32\tscon.exe %%s /dest:console
)

Source: Disconnecting From Remote Desktop While Running Automated Tests | TestComplete Documentation

This will keep the RDP session alive (although you’ll be booted out) and processes will be able to run in the VM using both background and foreground activities.