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Table 11. VMware View Log Files
VMware View Component File Path and Other Information
All components (installation logs) %TEMP%\vminst.log_date_timestamp
%TEMP%\vmmsi.log_date_timestamp
View Agent Windows XP guest OS:
<Drive Letter>
:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application
Data\VMware\VDM\logs
Windows Vista and Windows 7 guest OS:
<Drive Letter>
:\ProgramData\VMware\VDM\logs
If a User Data Disk (UDD) is configured, <Drive Letter> might correspond to the UDD.
The logs for PCoIP are named pcoip_agent*.log and pcoip_server*.log.
View Applications View Event Database configured on an SQL Server or Oracle database server.
Windows Application Event logs. Disabled by default.
View Client with Local Mode Windows XP host OS:
C:\Documents and Settings\
%username%
\Local Settings\Application
Data\VMware\VDM\Logs\
Windows Vista and Windows 7 host OS:
C:\Users\
%username%
\AppData\VMware\VDM\Logs\
View Composer %system_drive%\Windows\Temp\vmware-viewcomposer-ga-new.log on the
linked-clone desktop.
The View Composer log contains information about the execution of QuickPrep and
Sysprep scripts. The log records the start time and end time of script execution, and
any output or error messages.
View Connection Server or Security
Server
%ALLUSERSPROFILE%\Application Data\VMware\VDM\logs\*.txt on the
server.
<Drive Letter>
:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application
Data\VMware\VDM\logs\*.txt on the server.
The log directory is configurable in the log configuration settings of the View Common
Configuration ADM template file (vdm_common.adm).
PCoIP Secure Gateway logs are written to files named SecurityGateway_*.log in
the PCoIP Secure Gateway subdirectory of the log directory on a security server.
View Services View Event Database configured on an SQL Server or Oracle database server.
Windows System Event logs.
View Transfer Server Windows Server 2008 R2:
<Drive Letter>
:\ProgramData\VMware\VDM\logs\*.txt
Windows Server 2003 and Windows Server 2003 R2:
%ALLUSERSPROFILE%\Application Data\VMware\VDM\logs\*.txt
Apache Server:
<Drive Letter>
:\Program Files\Apache Group\Apache2\logs\error.log
VMware View Security
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