uh oh, necroing this thread. I believe the issue of mapping the manager install on a VD machine has come back to life. 
I downloaded the most recent manager and ran the install process, added my accounts and the grasshopper + rhino (connectors through the manager) with no issues. When I tested both connectors there were no kits available. I poked around the folders where the installs were hiding and the manager installs everything to the C:\users\<user>\appdata vs \\s00769fr01\users$\<user>\AppData. Ideally we would need the manager to map the installs to the latter.