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Table Of Contents
- Setting Up Horizon 6 for Linux Desktops
- Contents
- Setting Up Horizon 6 for Linux Desktops
- Installing and Configuring Horizon 6 for Linux Desktops
- Configuring Linux Machines for vDGA
- Bulk Deployment of Horizon 6 for Linux Desktops
- Overview of Bulk Deployment 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 PowerCLI Script to Clone Linux Desktop Machines
- Sample PowerCLI Script to Install View Agent on Linux Desktops
- Sample PowerCLI Script to Uninstall View Agent on Linux Desktops
- Sample PowerCLI Script to Perform Operations on Linux Desktop Machines
- Administering Horizon 6 for Linux Desktops
- Uninstalling and Reinstalling Horizon 6 for Linux Machines
- Configure Lossless PNG Images on Linux Desktops
- Suppress the vSphere Console Display of a Linux Desktop
- Configure a Left-handed Mouse on Ubuntu Desktops
- How to Perform Power Operations on Linux Desktops from vSphere
- Gather Information About Horizon 6 for Linux Software
- Troubleshooting Horizon 6 for Linux
- Collect Diagnostic Information for a Horizon 6 for Linux Machine
- Troubleshooting View Agent Registration Failure for a Linux Machine
- Troubleshooting an Unreachable View Agent on a Linux Machine
- Troubleshooting View Agent on a Linux Machine That Is Not Responding
- Configuring the Linux Firewall to Allow Incoming TCP Connections
- Index
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Familiarize yourself with the steps for mounting and installing VMware Tools on a Linux virtual
machine. 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 configuring your Linux machine to be resolvable through DNS.
These steps vary for the different Linux distributions and releases. For instructions, consult the
documentation for your Linux distribution and release.
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Familiarize yourself with the required JRE version for your Linux distribution. See “Required JRE
Versions for Linux Guest Operating Systems,” on page 12.
Procedure
1 In vSphere Web Client or vSphere Client, mount the VMware Tools virtual disk on the guest operating
system.
2 Right-click the VMware Tools installer file, VMwareTools.x.x.x-xxxx.tar.gz, click Extract to, and select
the desktop for your Linux distribution.
The vmware-tools-distrib folder is extracted to the desktop.
3 In the virtual machine, log in to the guest operating system and root and open a terminal window.
4 Uncompress the VMware Tools tar installer file.
For example:
tar zxpf /mnt/cdrom/VMwareTools-x.x.x-yyyy.tar.gz
5 Run the installer and configure VMware Tools.
The command might vary slightly in different Linux distributions. For example:
cd vmware-tools-distrib
sudo ./vmware-install.pl -d
Usually, the vmware-config-tools.pl configuration file runs after the installer file finishes running.
6 Configure the Linux machine to be resolvable through DNS.
7 Ensure that the View Connection Server instances in the pod can be resolved through DNS.
8 If your deployment uses a Windows Server 2012 or Windows Server 2012 R2 Active Directory (AD)
server, enable reversible password encryption.
a On the AD server, open AD users and computers.
b Right-click the View Admin account, or create a new Linux View Agent account, and select
Properties.
c Select the Account tab.
d In Account options, select the Store password using reversible encryption setting.
e Reset the View Admin password.
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