Installation and Setup Guide

Table 4‑3. Requirements for Specific Features
Feature Requirements
Real-Time Audio-Video
n
For client software from third-party vendors, this feature requires View 5.2 with Feature Pack
2 or later.
n
For Horizon Client from VMware, this feature requires View Agent 6.0.2 or later.
Requires the VMware Blast or PCoIP display protocol.
Virtual printing and location-
based printing for Windows
Server 2008 R2 desktops, RDS
desktops (on virtual machine
RDS hosts), and remote
applications
n
For client software from third-party vendors, this feature requires Horizon 6.0.1 with View or
later.
n
For Horizon Client from VMware, this feature requires View Agent 6.0.2 or later.
Requires the VMware Blast or PCoIP display protocol.
USB redirection
n
For client software from third-party vendors, this feature requires View 5.1 or later.
n
For Horizon Client from VMware, this feature requires View Agent 6.0.2 or later.
Requires the VMware Blast or PCoIP display protocol.
Smart cards For single-user virtual machine desktops, this feature requires View Agent 6.0.2 or later.
For session-based desktops provided by RDS hosts, this feature requires View Agent 6.1 or
later.
Client drive redirection View Agent 6.1.1 or later.
Note You can also use Horizon Client to securely access remote Windows-based applications, in
addition to remote desktops. Selecting an application in Horizon Client opens a window for that
application on the local client device, and the application looks and behaves as if it were locally installed.
You can use remote applications only if you are connected to Connection Server 6.0 or later. For
information about which operating systems are supported for the RDS host, which provides published
applications and published desktops, see the View Installation document.
Note The features that are available for each thin client device are determined by the vendor and model
and the configuration that an enterprise chooses to use. For information about the vendors and models
for thin client devices, see the VMware Compatibility Guide at
http://www.vmware.com/resources/compatibility/search.php?deviceCategory=vdm.
For descriptions of these features and their limitations, see the View Planning document.
Feature Support for Linux Desktops
Some Linux guest operating systems are supported if you have View Agent 6.1.1 or later. For a list of the
latest supported Linux operating systems and information about supported features, see the Setting Up
Horizon 7 for Linux Desktops document.
Internationalization
The user interface and documentation are available in English, Japanese, French, German, Simplified
Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Korean, and Spanish.
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