Enhanced Session Mode

Contains scripts to enable "Hyper-V Enhanced Session Mode" for Linux

Fedora & CentOS

This tutorial shows how to install and configure Enhanced Session Mode on Fedora. The script was not tested on older Fedora versions than 29.

Form more information have a look at the corresponding blog post for Enhanced Session Mode under Fedora 28.

Supported are currently:

CentOS 7
Fedora 29 - 33

Clone repository

First, clone this repository to your Fedora machine and change into the directory.

git clone https://github.com/secana/EnhancedSessionMode.git
cd EnhancedSessionMode

Install & configure XRDP

Run the script to install and configure XRDP. This may take some time and you need sudo rights on your machine.

# CentOS 7 or Fedora 29/30/31/32/33
# For Fedora 32 and up there is just one script as it works on all verions
source /etc/os-release
./install_esm_${ID}${VERSION_ID}.sh

After the scripts ran successfully, shutdown your Fedora VM.

Enable XRDP for your VM

On your Windows host system, open a elevated PowerShell (with administrator rights) and type enter the command below. Replace the name of the VM with the name of the Fedora VM on your hosts.

Set-VM -VMName "Fedora VM Name" -EnhancedSessionTransportType HvSocket

Now, start your Fedora VM and the UI to configure the enhanced session mode should pop up. Make sure you uncheck Printers in the Show Options --> Local Resources and save your setting.

GDM dependency

Don't disable GDM or RDP login won't work

secana / EnhancedSessionMode