I have been nesting RDP sessions from within a guest for many months with acceptable performance for the display, mouse, and keyboard. Recently, I added a nested VMware workstation and the GUI performance is horrible.
Are there any documented guidelines for tuning performance in this situation?
Acceptable GUI performance:
Host (Win7, VMware Wkstn 10), guest (Win7), VPN to project network, RDP through VPN to Host on project network (Win7), nested RDP to project servers
Replace the nested RDP sessions at the end of the chain with a VMware guest on the remote Host and GUI performance is horrible:
Host (Win7, VMware WKstn 10), guest (Win7), VPN to project network, RDP through VPN to Host on project network (Win7, Wmware Wkstn 8), guest (Win Server 2008 R2)