

This causes a tab to appear at the top of the screen. The normal way to close a full-screen RDP session is to simply move your mouse pointer to the upper middle portion of the screen. Figure 1: These windows are running in a remote VM that I am accessing through an RDP session. In reality, the windows are running in a full-screen RDP session.

If you look at Figure 1, for example, it almost appears as though the open windows were running on my local machine. It is possible, however, to run an RDP session full-screen. If you want to close the RDP session, then all you have to do is close the window.

Windows normally displays RDP sessions within a window. My experience has been that the "stuck VM" issue can sometimes occur when remotely accessing a Hyper-V VM through an RDP session. As such, I wanted to talk about some ways to deal with the issue.īefore I discuss my solution, let me give you a bit of context for the nature of the problem. I have run into this problem a couple of times over the years, but repeatedly over the past few months. I want to talk about a Hyper-V issue that I have never heard anyone else talk about: a full screen virtual machine (VM) session that becomes stuck on screen.
