Setting Up for Linux Desktops
Table Of Contents
- Setting Up Horizon 7 for Linux Desktops
- Contents
- Setting Up Horizon 7 for Linux Desktops
- Features and System Requirements
- Preparing a Linux Virtual Machine for Desktop Deployment
- Setting Up Active Directory Integration for Linux Desktops
- Setting Up Graphics for Linux Desktops
- Installing Horizon Agent
- Configuration Options for Linux Desktops
- Create and Manage Linux Desktop Pools
- Bulk Deployment of Horizon 7 for Manual Desktop Pools
- Overview of Bulk Deployment of Linux Desktops
- Overview of Bulk Upgrade of Linux Desktops
- Create a Virtual Machine Template for Cloning Linux Desktop Machines
- Input File for the Sample PowerCLI Scripts to Deploy Linux Desktops
- Sample Script to Clone Linux Virtual Machines
- Sample Script to Join Cloned Virtual Machines to AD Domain
- Sample Script to Join Cloned Virtual Machines to AD Domain Using SSH
- Sample Script to Upload Configuration Files to Linux Virtual Machines
- Sample Script to Upload Configuration Files to Linux Virtual Machines Using SSH
- Sample Script to Upgrade Horizon Agent on Linux Desktop Machines
- Sample Script to Upgrade Horizon Agent on Linux Virtual Machines Using SSH
- Sample Script to Perform Operations on Linux Virtual Machines
- Troubleshooting Linux Desktops
- Collect Diagnostic Information for Horizon 7 for Linux Machine
- Troubleshooting Copy and Paste between Remote Desktop and Client Host
- Configuring the Linux Firewall to Allow Incoming TCP Connections
- View Agent Fails to Disconnect on an iPad Pro Horizon Client
- SLES 12 SP1 Desktop does not Auto Refresh after Drag and Drop
- SSO Fails to Connect to a PowerOff Agent
- Unreachable VM After Creating a Manual Desktop Pool for Linux
2 Configure custom configuration options.
a Right-click the virtual machine and click Edit Settings.
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 configuring 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 affect 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 Configure the desktop environment to use for the specific Linux distribution.
See the Desktop Environment section in System Requirements for Horizon 7 for Linux 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 configure networking on the Linux machine so that the Linux machine can
ping the Connection Server instance using its FQDN (fully qualified 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 Ubuntu 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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