Interacting with a Meterpreter Session Before you can interact with a Meterpreter session, you must have an active session on a compromised Windows target. 1. Open a project. 2. Click the Sessions tab. The Sessions window appears. 3. Click the active session that you want to open. The session must be a Meterpreter session. 4. Click Virtual Desktop from the Available Actions area. 5. Choose the Java client or choose to manually connect to an external client.