How to run GUI tests on a jenkins windows slave without remote desktop connection?

Question

I have a jenkins agent set up on window 7 and a jenkins server on Linux. I am running GUI testing on the windows agent. It runs fine if I have a remote desktop connection co

Answer 1

I tried the solutions provided here but nothing worked for me. At the end, I came up with a workaround.

I opened an RDP connection to the VM in a different VM (VM2). I left the first connection open inside VM2 and disconnected from it.

It worked but that implies having two virtual machines available.