MOA as a thin View4 Client

A few days ago the first real ESXi made its way into my lab.

Hey - now I can test if the MOA-View Client really works ;-)

And indead - it does.

... but so far only the RDP protocol works. Still investigating ....

Anyway ... you can follow the instructions I posted last year - see

Here are some first screenshots of a successful connection.
Kiosk mode is somewhat advanced - but possible. If you need help contact me.
Regard this as proof of concept only - need more tests ...

Ulli Hankeln



Instructions ...
Screenshots ...

Trouble-shooting:

If anything during connection attempts goes wrong - first of all check DNS-name resolution.
MOA must be able to address the View-connection-server by name.

Instructions ...

you first must create a MOA 2.4.1 build - see instructions
You very likely will not need the mass-storage drivers so you may want to remove them to speed up boot-time.
I would highly recommend to build MOA so that it boots from a USB device.
This way you can add video and sound drivers for your machines quite easily.

Additionally download:
mstsc-lodr.exe
vmware-viewclient-4.0.0-210939.exe or newer version

Add both files to ...pebuilder\bartpe\i386\system32

for a View-client 4 in a MOA-kiosk solution use:

lastbatch.cmd edit ...\pebuilder\bartpe\moahome\bin\lastbatch.cmd

@echo off
set mytitle=custom last batch
title %MYTITLE%
COLOR f3

rem adjust next line to set a custom resolution
rem setres h1024 v768 b32

rem adjust next line to change default us-keyboard layout
rem keyboard gr

rem use this to start the crypt server - do not disable
net start cryptsvc

rem next line enables RDP client - do not disable
start /wait mstsc-lodr.exe

rem next line installs the View-client - adjust filename if necessary
start /wait vmware-viewclient-4.0.0-210939.exe /s /v/qn

rem use next line to preset a special server
rem regedit /s view-server.reg

rem next line starts the View-client
"r:\programs\vmware\vmware view\client\bin\wswc.exe"

rem set an action to do when View-client exits ...
rem shutdowns
exit

moa.ini edit .... \pebuilder\bartpe\i386\system32\shell\moa.ini

[BOOT]
defaultCheatCode=lean
defaultRAMdriveSize=8
moahome_ramsize=16
start_sshd=yes
start_vmdks=no
start_vgasafe=yes
start_vmware=no
start_audiosrv=yes
start_eventlog=yes
start_msi=yes
moa_timeout=1
start_explorer=no
start_debug=no
start_kiosk=yes
start_KioskVM=no
start_vcr4moa=yes
start_KioskVMX=Q:\NT4SRV01\Windows-NT.vmx
start_KioskVM2=no
start_KioskVMX2=Q:\w2ksrven\2kas-en.vmx
start_earlybatch=no
start_latebatch=no
start_prenetworkbatch=no

[NETWORK]
default_NetMode=
vmnet1_IP=192.168.52.1
vmnet1_name=VMware Network Adapter VMnet1
vmnet8_IP=192.168.132.1
vmnet8_name=VMware Network Adapter VMnet8
moa_hostname=moa
moa_workgroup=workgroup

[AUTOMOUNT]
mount_tdrive=no
mount_udrive=no
mount_vdrive=no
wim1_mount=no
wim1_path=r:\_sfx_\ws602ripped.wim

in case you want a progressbar

put viewkioskprogress.exe into ...\pebuilder\bartpe\i386\system32\shell and launch it with

firstbatch.cmd - create a new file as ...\pebuilder\bartpe\i386\system32\shell\firstbatch.cmd

@echo off
start viewkioskprogress.exe
exit

(the progressbar runs until the process wswc.exe is launched)

When you have done this steps launch moa-setup-tool and run menu > postprocessing > create bandit ....

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