Overcoming common PVS™ issues

There are some common Citrix PVS issues that you might face while working with a Citrix PVS environment for your XenDesktop VDI deployments.

Target devices hang at Windows startup

This issue can be due to multiple unsupported hardware on your VM; it can also be an issue with vNIC, SataController, or any other component on your Hypervisor layer. The easiest solution or workaround provided by Citrix is to enable the Interrupt Safe mode on the PVS console bootstrap configuration.

Note

To learn more about the procedure to enable this setting, visit http://support.citrix.com/article/CTX131993.

Target devices fail to boot and display error "No entry found in Database"

This is a simple error that suggests that the device you are trying to boot doesn't have an entry in the PVS database. Sometimes, while creating PVS devices on a PVS console, administrators make a typo while entering the device MAC that matches the VM on hypervisor. You will receive...