Remark: This article belongs to a series of articles explaining Royal Server and the new connection types we have introduced with Royal TS V3 (for Windows) and Royal TSX V2 (for macOS).
Here's a complete list of our blogpost series:

Use Case

From our Royal TS X client, you can now start/stop/restart Hyper-V instances or quickly connect to them via RDP.

Hyper-V management using Royal TSX and Royal Server

Royal TSX V2 (for macOS) is introducing basic Hyper-V management! You can list the Hyper-V instances and act on them, including:
  • Start/Shut down an instance
  • Save the state of an instance
  • Pause an instance
  • Connect ad hoc to an instance or the Hyper-V console
  • Create a Remote Desktop connection based on the selected instance

Create a Hyper-V connection in Royal TSX and Royal Server

Simply add a new Hyper-V connection to your document using the “Add” -> “Hyper-V” menu entry:

Configure the name, IP, etc.:

Since this Connection Type in Royal TSX is based on Royal Server, you will need to specify the Management Endpoint:

Make sure you have the correct credentials to access the remote system configured:

And you're ready to go:

Multiple Hyper-V hosts

As with other connection types, you can specify more than one Computer Name (separated by a semicolon) to get an aggregate view of all your Hyper-V machines. The column “Computer Name” helps distinguish the Hyper-V hosts.

Based on the result and the state of the Hyper-V instance, you can also act on the instances directly from Royal TSX:

Of course, the same functionality is included in Royal TS (for Windows) V3:

Working with the same document in Royal TS (for Windows) V3 and Royal TSX (for macOS) V2

We made sure that you can use the exact same document in clients running on both platforms. They can use the same file even at the same time! Just make sure you have configured “Merge file on save” in the document settings.

“Direct Connect is not supported for this connection. Please assign a Management Endpoint to the connection”

You get this error in Royal TSX (for macOS) when you try to use a connection that has “No Management Endpoint selected.” In this case, choose a correctly configured Management Endpoint which points to a Royal Server installation. This connection was probably created by Royal TS (for Windows) using “Direct Connect (No Management Endpoint)” which works in Windows but does not in macOS ( Find a detailed explanation here ). So if you want to fully share a document between platforms, make sure you have a working Royal Server installation configured that is accessible from both platforms.