How to set default VM behaviour as FALSE for 'tools.guest.desktop.autolock' in VCD

Products

• VMware Cloud Director

Issue/Introduction

How to set default VM behaviour as FALSE for 'tools.guest.desktop.autolock' in VMware Cloud Director (VCD)

Environment

VMware Cloud Director 10.6

Resolution

Create a VM Sizing Policy in VMware Cloud Director and in the Special VM Configuration Settings section set the "tools.guest.desktop.autolock" key to FALSE as extra config parameter.

If the Organization Virtual Data Center have only compute policies configured this way, then all VMs should be deployed with these policies and have the setting as desired.

Additional Information

Configure virtual machines to lock