Citrix + VMWare = No Go!
Here’s an annoying bug I encountered. Don’t know if this impacts anyone else, but my 5 second search attempt yielded no results so I thought I’d throw this out there for the world to read.
If you have an open Citrix Metaframe connection to a remote machine and you try to fire up a VMWare Workstation (I’m using version 6.5.1), the VMWare screen will show up incorrectly. In my case, the screen was offset too far to the top and left. I was basically able to see about 2/3rd of the screen from the bottom right corner up. Very odd. I rebooted the VM three times. When I shut down the Citrix connection and started up the VM, everything was fine again.
You have been warned!
[EDIT] – This problem only occurs if you have the Citrix connection up BEFORE loading the VMWare machine. Going in the opposite order allows everything to work as expected.