Installation and Setup Guide
Table Of Contents
- VMware Horizon Client for Linux Installation and Setup Guide
- Contents
- VMware Horizon Client for Linux Installation and Setup Guide
- System Requirements and Installation
- System Requirements for Linux Client Systems
- System Requirements for Real-Time Audio-Video
- System Requirements for Multimedia Redirection (MMR)
- Requirements for Using Flash URL Redirection
- Requirements for Using Skype for Business with Horizon Client
- Smart Card Authentication Requirements
- Supported Desktop Operating Systems
- Preparing Connection Server for Horizon Client
- Installation Options
- Install or Upgrade Horizon Client for Linux from VMware Product Downloads
- Install Horizon Client for Linux from the Ubuntu Software Center
- Configure VMware Blast Options
- Horizon Client Data Collected by VMware
- Configuring Horizon Client for End Users
- Common Configuration Settings
- Using the Horizon Client Command-Line Interface and Configuration Files
- Using URIs to Configure Horizon Client
- Configuring Certificate Checking for End Users
- Configuring Advanced TLS/SSL Options
- Configuring Specific Keys and Key Combinations to Send to the Local System
- Using FreeRDP for RDP Connections
- Enabling FIPS Compatible Mode
- Configuring the PCoIP Client-Side Image Cache
- Managing Remote Desktop and Application Connections
- Using a Microsoft Windows Desktop or Application on a Linux System
- Troubleshooting Horizon Client
- Configuring USB Redirection on the Client
- Index
Additional Smart Card Authentication Requirements
In addition to meeting the smart card requirements for Horizon Client systems, other Horizon components
must meet certain conguration requirements to support smart cards.
Connection Server and
security server hosts
An administrator must add all applicable Certicate Authority (CA)
certicates for all trusted user certicates to a server truststore le on the
Connection Server host or security server host. These certicates include root
certicates and must include intermediate certicates if the user's smart card
certicate was issued by an intermediate certicate authority.
For information about conguring Connection Server to support smart card
use, see the View Administration document.
Active Directory
For information about tasks that an administrator might need to perform in
Active Directory to implement smart card authentication, see the View
Administration document.
Configure Horizon Client for Smart Card Authentication
You must perform certain conguration steps to use a smart card in Horizon Client.
Prerequisites
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Install Horizon Client.
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(Optional) To make the Username hint eld appear in the Horizon Client login dialog box, enable the
smart card user name hints feature in Connection Server. For more information, see "Seing Up Smart
Card Authentication" in the View Administration document.
Procedure
1 Create the folder /usr/lib/vmware/view/pkcs11.
2 Create a symbol link to the pkcs11 library, which is used for smart card authentication.
For example, run the following command:
sudo ln -s /usr/lib/pkcs11/libgtop11dotnet.so
/usr/lib/vmware/view/pkcs11
Supported Desktop Operating Systems
A Horizon administrator creates virtual machines that have a guest operating system and installs agent
software in the guest operating system. End users can log in to these virtual machines from a client device.
For a list of the supported Windows guest operating systems, see the View Installation document.
Some Linux guest operating systems are also supported if you have View Agent 6.1.1 or later, or
Horizon Agent 7.0 or later. For information about system requirements, conguring Linux virtual machines
for use in Horizon, and a list of supported features, see Seing Up Horizon 6 for Linux Desktops or Seing Up
Horizon 7 for Linux Desktops.
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