Vmware horizon client 64 bit linux
Horizon Client for Linux 2106 | 15 July 2021
These release notes cover the following topics:
Key Features
VMware Horizon Client for Linux makes it easy to access your remote desktops and published applications from a supported Linux system with the best possible user experience on the Local Area Network (LAN) or across a Wide Area Network (WAN).
- Support for Ubuntu and Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) — The Horizon Client installer available from the VMware Downloads site provides support for these operating systems.
- Unmatched performance — The adaptive capabilities of the VMware Blast and PCoIP display protocols are optimized to deliver the best user experience, even over low-bandwidth and high-latency connections. Your desktop is fast and responsive regardless of where you are.
- Simple connectivity — Horizon Client for Linux is tightly integrated with VMware Horizon for simple setup and connectivity.
- Secure from any location — At your desk or away from the office, your data is delivered securely to you wherever you are. Enhanced certificate checking is performed on the client. Horizon Client for Linux also supports optional RADIUS and RSA SecurID authentication.
What’s New in This Release
- VMware Blast changes
The Allow High Efficiency Video Decoding (HEVC) option is enabled by default. Previously, it was disabled by default. When this option is selected, performance and image quality are improved if the client machine has a GPU that supports HEVC decoding. If this option is selected but the client machine does not have a GPU that supports HEVC decoding, or the agent does not support HEVC encoding, Horizon Client uses H.264 decoding instead if H.264 is selected. Horizon Client uses Blast Codec decoding if H.264 is not selected. The default setting of view.enableHEVC is also changed from FALSE to TRUE. See Configure VMware Blast Options and Horizon Client Configuration Settings and Command-Line Options. - Enhanced support for Raspberry Pi 4
Real-Time Audio-Video (RTAV) is now supported on Raspberry Pi 4 devices. - Enhancements to serial port redirection
This release offers the following improvements to the serial port redirection feature:- The GPO policy setting configured on the remote desktop in Administrative Templates > VMware View Agent Configuration > Serial COM > Connect all ports automatically now applies to serial port connections on Linux client machines. See VMware View Agent Configuration ADMX Template Settings.
- The vmwsprrdctl.exe console utility provides detailed information about the source port on the client machine and the status of the redirection. See Using Serial Port Redirection.
For information about new remote desktop features, see Release Notes for VMware Horizon Version 2106.
Internationalization
The user interface and documentation for Horizon Client are available in English, Japanese, French, German, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Korean, and Spanish.
Note: To have the client user interface use Simplified Chinese characters, set the client system to use the zh_CN locale. If you set the client system to use the zh_SG locale, the user interface is displayed in English characters.
Before You Begin
Note: The supported systems listed below and in the VMware Horizon Client for Linux Installation and Setup Guide pertain to the Horizon Client for Linux that VMware makes available. In addition, several VMware partners offer thin and zero client devices for VMware Horizon deployments. The features that are available for each thin or zero client device, and the operating systems supported, are determined by the vendor and model, and the configuration that an enterprise chooses to use. For information about the vendors and models for these client devices, see the VMware Compatibility Guide.
- Horizon Client for Linux 2106 has been tested and is supported on the following 64-bit operating systems if you use the installer provided by VMware:
- Ubuntu x64 18.04 and 20.04
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 7.9 and 8.4
For more system requirements and detailed installation instructions, see VMware Horizon Client for Linux Installation and Setup Guide.
Information for Distribution Partners
The following deployment instructions and information about library dependencies are provided for VMware distribution partners.
These instructions describe how to deploy Horizon Client for Linux and individual Horizon Client components using tar.gz packages. For instructions on how to install Horizon Client for Linux using the .bundle installer file, see Install or Upgrade Horizon Client for Linux from VMware Product Downloads.
Deployment Instructions
- Download the VMware-Horizon-Client-Linux-YYMM-x.x.x-yyyyyyyy.tar.gz file from the VMware Downloads site and extract the contents of the downloaded tar.gz package to your system, where YYMM is the marketing version number,x.x.x is the internal version number, and yyyyyyyy is the build number.
- Navigate to the folder for your CPU instruction set architecture. You will find additional tar.gz packages for individual Horizon Client components. For example, in the x64 folder you will find the following tar.gz packages for Horizon Client.
VMware-Horizon-Client-YYMM-x.x.x-yyyyyyyy.x64.tar.gz VMware-Horizon-PCoIP-YYMM-x.x.x-yyyyyyyy.x64.tar.gz VMware-Horizon-serialportClient-YYMM-x.x.x-yyyyyyyy.x64.tar.gz VMware-Horizon-USB-YYMM-x.x.x-yyyyyyyy.x64.tar.gz VMware-Horizon-scannerClient-YYMM-x.x.x-yyyyyyyy.x64.tar.gz VMware-Horizon-integratedPrinting-YYMM-x.x.x.yyyyyyyy.x64.tar.gz VMware-Horizon-html5mmr-YYMM-x.x.x-yyyyyyyy.x64.tar.gz VMware-Horizon-TeamsOptimization-YYMM-x.x.x-yyyyyyyy.x64.tar.gz- Horizon Client for Linux The VMware-Horizon-Client-YYMM-x.x.x-yyyyyyyy.ARCH.tar.gz package contains the VMware Horizon Client binaries. Use the following instructions as a guide for configuring the VMware Horizon Client binary files. The VMware-Horizon-PCoIP-YYMM-x.x.x-yyyyyyyy.ARCH.tar.gz package contains the mandatory binaries used by both display protocols, PCoIP and VMware Blast. Use the following instructions as a guide for configuring the Horizon Client display protocol files.
- Extract the VMware-Horizon-Client-YYMM-x.x.x-yyyyyyyy.ARCH.tar.gz package.
- Navigate to the extracted folder, VMware-Horizon-Client-YYMM-x.x.x-yyyyyyyy.ARCH, and move the contents of the extracted Horizon Client files to the recommended system folders. Depending on your particular Linux environment, you can choose to use folders different from those used below.
- Move the contents of the bin folder to the /usr/bin folder.
- Move the contents of the lib folder to the /usr/lib folder.
- Move the contents of the doc folder to the /usr/share/doc folder.
- Move the contents of the share/locale folder to the /usr/share/locale folder.
- Extract the contents of the VMware-Horizon-PCoIP-YYMM-x.x.x-yyyyyyyy.ARCH.tar.gz package.
- Navigate to the extracted folder, VMware-Horizon-PCoIP-YYMM-x.x.x-yyyyyyyy.ARCH, and copy the contents of the lib folder to the /usr/lib folder. Depending on your particular Linux environment, you can choose to use a folder different from /usr/lib.
Note: To keep the attributes intact, use the -a option of the cp command when copying the files from lib folder.
- USB Redirection
The VMware-Horizon-USB-YYMM-xxx-yyyy.ARCH.tar.gz package contains the binaries used by the USB Redirection feature.- Extract the contents of the VMware-Horizon-USB-YYMM-xxx-yyyy.ARCH.tar.gz package.
- Navigate to where the package was extracted and copy the extracted folders to the recommended system folders.
- Copy the contents of the bin folder to the /usr/bin folder.
- Copy the contents of the lib folder to the /usr/lib folder.
- Copy the contents of the init.d folder to the /etc/init.d folder.
- Configure the USB Redirection feature, using the following examples for an Ubuntu system as a guide.
- Set up USB arbitrator daemon in the system’s auto-startup script using one of the following methods, where # refers to 2, 3, 4, or 5, depending on your system’s run level.
- Create symbolic links using the following command:
sudo ln -s /etc/init.d/vmware-USBArbitrator /etc/rc#.d/S50vmware-USBArbitratorsudo ln -s /etc/init.d/vmware-USBArbitrator /etc/rc#.d/K08vmware-USBArbitratorsudo /etc/init.d/vmware-USBArbitrator [start|stop|restart]Building Dependencies
The following libraries are required for building and running Horizon Client for Linux.
The following environment variables are required for building Horizon Client for Linux with Seamless Window feature.
After you install the Horizon Client components, locate the /bin directory in the Horizon Client package that you extracted earlier. From that bin directory, run the vmware-view-lib-san script, which checks the build dependencies.
Known Issues
- If multiple Horizon clients connect to the same RDS desktop or remote application simultaneously and map to a location-based printer with the same name, the printer appears in the first client session, but not in later client sessions.
Workaround: For the client sessions in which the printer does not appear, perform a manual refresh. For a remote desktop, press F5 or refresh the Devices and Printers window. For a remote application, close and reopen the application print dialog box. The location-based printer appears in the printer list. - If your client system is running pcsc-lite version 1.5, smart card removal policy may not work, logging off, shutting down or resetting a Windows remote desktop may result in a black screen, or the Horizon Client menu may become blank for about 10 seconds when a user has smart card sessions to multiple desktops and the user disconnects from one desktop.
Workaround: Upgrade to pcsc-lite 1.7.4 or later. - If you use a PulseAudio sound system, you might hear static when setting the volume using guest system volume slider.
Workaround: Use the Linux client system’s volume slider or use ALSA audio by adding sound.backendType = alsa to either the ~/.vmware/config or the /etc/vmware/config configuration file. - If you connect to a remote desktop with FreeRDP and configure the desktop to connect to a separate disk, if the disk name includes non-ASCII characters, the disk name cannot be displayed correctly in the remote desktop. For example, if you use non-ASCII characters in the disk name and then launch Horizon Client with command line option
'--rdpclient=xfreerdp' and '--xfreerdpOptions '
the disk name does not appear correctly in the remote desktop. Workaround: None - If you use a FreeRDP connection and specify a monitor configuration that conflicts with the configuration the end user chooses, Horizon Client performance becomes poor and the client might stop responding altogether. For example, the following command for launching Horizon Client would cause problems if the user selected «Full Screen — This Monitor»:
CheckNetIsolation LoopbackExempt -a -n=Microsoft.MicrosoftEdge_8wekyb3d8bbwe
- Horizon Client is running on an Ubuntu 20.04 system with Intel Ice Lake or later hardware, and
- Session protocol is VMware Blast with HEVC 4:4:4 encoding
The Intel media driver that ships by default with Ubuntu 20.04 contains a bug that causes Horizon Client to crash. Later versions of the driver contain a fix for this bug.
Workaround: Update the Intel media driver by installing the latest version of intel-media-va-driver-non-free .
- Set up USB arbitrator daemon in the system’s auto-startup script using one of the following methods, where # refers to 2, 3, 4, or 5, depending on your system’s run level.