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To use View Administrator with your Web browser, you must install Adobe Flash Player 10 or later. Your
client system must have access to the internet to allow Adobe Flash Player to be installed.
The computer on which you launch View Administrator must trust the root and intermediate certificates of
the server that hosts View Connection Server. The supported browsers already contain certificates for all of
the well-known certificate authorities (CAs). If your certificates come from a CA that is not well known, you
must follow the instructions in the VMware View Installation document about importing root and intermediate
certificates.
To display text properly, View Administrator requires Microsoft-specific fonts. If your Web browser runs on
a non-Windows operating system such as Linux, UNIX, or Mac OS, make sure that Microsoft-specific fonts are
installed on your computer.
Currently, the Microsoft Web site does not distribute Microsoft fonts, but you can download them from
independent Web sites.
Supported Operating Systems for Windows-Based View Client and View
Client with Local Mode
Users run View Client to connect to their View desktops. You must install View Client or View Client with
Local Mode on a supported operating system.
Table 3-7 lists the Microsoft Windows operating systems supported for View Client. For information about
operating systems supported by other View Clients, such as View Client for the Mac and View Client for iPad,
see the documents that pertain to the specific client. Go to
https://www.vmware.com/support/viewclients/doc/viewclients_pubs.html.
Table 3-7. View Client Operating System Support for Windows-Based Clients
Operating System Version Edition Service Pack
Windows 7 32-bit and 64-bit Home, Enterprise,
Professional, and Ultimate
None and SP1
Windows XP 32-bit Home and Professional SP3
Windows Vista 32-bit Home, Business, Enterprise,
and Ultimate
SP2
IMPORTANT View Client with Local Mode is supported only on Windows systems and only on physical
computers. In addition, to use this feature, your VMware license must include View Client with Local Mode.
View Client with Local Mode is the fully supported feature that in earlier releases was an experimental feature
called View Client with Offline Desktop.
NOTE VMware partners offer thin client devices for VMware View deployments. The features and Linux
operating systems 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 Thin Client Compatibility Guide, available on the VMware Web site.
Hardware Requirements for Local Mode Desktops
When you check out a View desktop to run on your local computer, the hardware on the client computer must
support both the local system and the virtual machine that now runs on it.
PC Hardware
Table 3-8 describes the hardware requirements for various View desktop operating systems.
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