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jscarville
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How to Connect a Wyse Terminal to a Linux VDI

I am trying to connect a Wyse PxN terminal to a VDI running CentOS 7.  I can connect using the Horizon Client (v 4.6.0) from a Linux Desktop but the Wyse keep reporting

"This desktop does not support the requested display protocol"

Our "support" guru says this is because the resolution on the Linux installation is too high for the terminal to handle.  However, I reduced it as far down as 1024x768 and still get the same error.

Is this just a matter of configuration?  Is there some hardware that needs to be updated?  Something else?

The version of VMWare is 6.5.0.

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mchadwick19
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Linux VDI is the Blast protocol only, so your Wyse terminal cannot connect to the Linux VDI desktop using PCoIP. Since it's tera-based (I don't believe) they can't use a different display protocol.

There are other Wyse terminals out there that are intel-based that support both protocols.

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mchadwick19
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Are your Thin Clients the teradici based thin clients, or configured to attempt to use the PCoIP protocol?

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jscarville
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Yes and yes.  The client is teradici based and uses PCoIP.

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mchadwick19
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Linux VDI is the Blast protocol only, so your Wyse terminal cannot connect to the Linux VDI desktop using PCoIP. Since it's tera-based (I don't believe) they can't use a different display protocol.

There are other Wyse terminals out there that are intel-based that support both protocols.

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jscarville
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Thank you.  I rather suspected the resolution excuse was a canard.

Can the Blast protocol connect to a Windows VDI?  I suspect it can since the Horizon Client will connect to one.

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mchadwick19
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Yes, you can use Blast + PCoIP to connect to Windows Agent systems. In the Horizon Client you have the option to select protocol (if allowed by the administrator) when connecting to Windows pools. For Linux, you should be forced to connect using Blast.

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