Setting Up for Linux Desktops

2 Congure custom conguration options.
a Right-click the virtual machine and click Edit .
b Specify the number of vCPUs and the vMemory size.
For recommended values, follow the guidelines in the installation guide for your Linux
distribution.
For example, Ubuntu 12.04 recommends conguring 2048 MB for vMemory and 2 vCPUs.
c Select Video card and specify the number of displays and the total video memory (vRAM).
Set the vRAM size in vSphere Web Client for virtual machines that use 2D or vSGA, which use the
VMware driver. The vRAM size has no aect on vDGA or NVIDIA GRID vGPU machines, which
use NVIDIA drivers.
For recommended values, follow the guidelines in System Requirements for Horizon 7 for Linux. Do
not use the Video Memory Calculator.
3 Power on the virtual machine and install the Linux distribution.
4 Congure the desktop environment to use for the specic Linux distribution.
See the Desktop Environment section in “System Requirements for Horizon 7 for Linux,” on page 11 for
additional information.
5 Ensure that the system hostname is resolvable to 127.0.0.1.
Prepare a Linux Machine for Remote Desktop Deployment
You must perform certain tasks to prepare a Linux machine for use as a desktop in a Horizon 7 deployment.
Before a Linux machine can be managed by Horizon 7, the machine must be able to communicate with
Connection Server. You must congure networking on the Linux machine so that the Linux machine can
ping the Connection Server instance using its FQDN (fully qualied domain name).
Open VMware Tools (OVT) are pre-installed on RHEL 7, CentOS 7, SLED 12, and SLES 12 machines. If you
are preparing either of these machines for use as a remote desktop, you can skip steps 1 through 5 in the
following procedure, which describe how to install VMware Tools by manually running the installer.
If you are using an Ubuntu16.04 machine, install OVT on it. If you are preparing this machine for use as a
remote desktop, you can skip steps 1 through 5 in the following procedure and manually install OVT on
your Unbuntu 16.04 machine using the following command:
apt-get install open-vm-tools-desktop
Prerequisites
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Verify that a new virtual machine (VM) was created in vCenter Server and your Linux distribution was
installed on the machine
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Familiarize yourself with the steps for mounting and installing VMware Tools on a Linux VM. See
"Manually Install or Upgrade VMware Tools in a Linux Virtual Machine" in the vSphere Virtual Machine
Administration document.
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Familiarize yourself with the steps for conguring your Linux machine to be resolvable through DNS.
These steps vary for the dierent Linux distributions and releases. For instructions, consult the
documentation for your Linux distribution and release.
Procedure
1 In vSphere Web Client or vSphere Client, mount the VMware Tools virtual disk on the VM.
Setting Up Horizon 7 for Linux Desktops
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