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What does the View Agent actually do, and why does it not support Windows 7 64bit? I'm assuming the agent makes the vm guest system visible in vCenter? Any insight will be appreciated.

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This is taken from the View 4 admin guide, http://www.vmware.com/pdf/view401_admin_guide.pdf.

View Agent—a software service that is installed on all guest virtual machines,

physical systems, or terminal servers in order to allow them to be managed by

View Manager. The agent provides features such as connection monitoring, Virtual

Printing, USB support, and single sign‐on

The document also list 32 bit Windows 7 support as tech preview only.






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From what I was told about Windows 7 is that it will not be fully supported until the next big update. Which should be this year sometime.

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There are several functions the View client includes.

Some of them are:

it's the part, the View Connection Server communicates with, to e.g. determine whether the VM is idle or a user is logged on... In addition to this it includes the drivers for PCoIP. Mike Laverick has some interesting posts on this (e.g. VMware View4 and PCoIP)

André

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This is taken from the View 4 admin guide, http://www.vmware.com/pdf/view401_admin_guide.pdf.

View Agent—a software service that is installed on all guest virtual machines,

physical systems, or terminal servers in order to allow them to be managed by

View Manager. The agent provides features such as connection monitoring, Virtual

Printing, USB support, and single sign‐on

The document also list 32 bit Windows 7 support as tech preview only.






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