Need To Test Applications on RDS -- Howto?

[saberman]

Host: Windows 8.1 Pro x64 on Surface Pro 3 512GB
Guest: Windows ?

I have a client that wants to install an application on an RDS server with multiple users logged in.

I need to emulate that environment for testing. I need an RDS server and multiple VMs to test users connecting to the RDS server and using the application. Is it possible to setup a test environment that mimics that using VirtualBox?

I need an RDS server VM and multiple Windows VMs that will connect to the RDS server. One of the problems is that the MS Access application being tested uses SendKeys which may function differently using RDS than running on a real machine.

Any suggestions on how to setup the RDS server VM and the end user VMs would be appreciated.

[scottgus1]

See Networking in the manual, section 6. You can attach the server and clients all to the same internal network, then they can communicate all day without connecting to your physical network. If you want to add the host to the test network, you can use Host-only instead of internal. Either style of network can have a DHCP server or not, depending on your needs.

If you want to add the internet to the internal network version described above, get another guest with a router OS like pfSense, with two virtual NICs in the router guest. One NIC will be set to NAT, which will bring the internet through the host, and will be the WAN. The other NIC attaches to the internal network the server and clients are on. Keep in mind not to have two DHCP servers running on your test network.

[socratis]

If you want to add the internet to the internal network version described above, get another guest with a router OS like pfSense, with two virtual NICs in the router guest.

Or you can use the "NAT Network" option. Two birds with one stone and it's much easier. Granted it's labelled as "experimental" but I've encountered no issues so far.

[saberman]

Thanks.