Is there a VMView Client for Linux

[dwchan]

Is there a VMview Client for most Linux distro (i.e. Ubuntu, Federo, etc). If I want to use VMView on a generic Linux Client, what else do I need other than FireFox and RDP player?

[RParker]

I asked this same question, because I have the beta for vSphere on Linux, and apparently it's still IN Beta.

Not sure what the hold up is, but it may be out in a couple of months, is what I was told...

[admin]

I think this might be what you're looking for:

http://code.google.com/p/vmware-view-open-client/

[RParker]

I think this might be what you're looking for:

Not even close, still have to use Windows. We WANT a true Linux VI client, that's it. No need to connect to Windows machines ... just to manage a vCenter to manage an ESX server, we SHOULD be able to do this natively...

Especially since ESX is pretty much Linux (even though it's not) but it's weird they adopt open source for anything BUT the management pieces..

[dwchan]

I think some of you may have misunderstood. I am looking at deploying VMview for a bunch of Windows XP desktop image, but are also looking at using a linux base desktop to connect to the VMview server. Normally, for a windows client, you would install the VMview client so you have some additional advantage (from the client) like usb redirect, single sign-on, direct virtual desktop connection (without first using the web browser to logon). For a linux client, are any of these options available?

[TomHowarth]

So what you are actually after is a Linux Agent not a client. if so then you are out of luck and you may be be better servers by investigating another broker software like vWorkspace or Provision

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[davesherman]

Hi Dwchan,

Just to be clear you are going to install VMware View, provision Windows XP virtual machines on ESX and your users will be using Linux desktops to connect to the XP images through the View broker? If this is the case, you can use the open source View client linked above. It works fairly well and has most of the features that the Windows client does (I use it often on Ubuntu). VMware refuses to provide a supported Linux View client to the general public, instead restricting it to third party partners only for integration, and in fact their linux web client is marked as 'experimental' in the admin guide. Maybe we will see a VMware supported View Linux client as well as a VMware VI client in the near future?