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caddo
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View agent for Linux: possible coming feature?

Hi all,

this is not a technical question but a general consideration about possibility in near future of using linux desktop as view managed virtual machines to provide virtual desktop experience to users taking advantage of PCoIP protocol and linked clones technology.

As far as i know this is not possible today but more than a business asked me if it's possible to start a new virtual desktop project with View 4 and Red Hat Enterprise Linux desktops.

I would like to know if some of you people happend to have heard about something like that as possible new feature in the (not too far) future.

Thank you all.

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AdamBil
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Hi Caddo,

I also think it'd be pretty cool to broker out Linux desktops using PCoIP and View. I DO know that View can broker HP RGS and RDP connections so I'd be interested to see if anyone had set up a Linux desktop using RGS's 32 or 64-bit linux agent and using View to broker that connection (or more interestingly, using the free xRDP server ( http://xrdp.sourceforge.net/ ) and brokering the Linux desktop using RDP). Haven't heard anyone doing this yet but I imagine it's on the pipeline...

What would be really nice is being able to broker out blade workstations with CVP (type-1 hypervisor) when that gets released and then let the user manage their local client VM's but use PCoIP or RGS to connect to the blade's CVP O/S (not client's O/S display adapter since that will be rendered using the VMSVGA II or VM3D driver and displayed to the user using PCoIP or RGS via the View client). This would be keen for traders who want more than one VM to play with.

Regards,

--Adam

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bfpacs
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Any update on a View Agent for linux?? I have searched on google and VMwares site with no luck.

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eeg3
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I would be surprised if VMware created this. There just isn't as much of a market for it.






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bfpacs
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Do you have any stats to back that up? I have several customers in different sectors waiting on View linux agents to jump into the virtual world. I have talk ed to other friends in IT and most of them agree. They all have a need to be able to stream a linux vdi. Either VMWare or Xen will have a huge advantage if they are first to market.

Thats my 2 cents....

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eeg3
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The Windows desktop market share is significantly larger. Is there demand? I'm sure there is some.

I would just be very surprised if they came out with this, considering their lack of Linux support thus far. There is still no supported Linux client (for View or vSphere for that matter), even.

Then there are the technical limitations that would pose hurdles, such as the disparity between distributions, the licensing issues that exist even now with the PCoIP client on Linux (whereas it currently only is offered to vendors), etc.

Just my opinion.






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Linjo
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This guy got it working, not too much info about how he did it though:

http://translate.google.com/translate?js=n&prev=_t&hl=sv&ie=UTF-8&layout=2&eotf=1&sl=fr&tl=en&u=http...

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JohnVUB
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you can sign a petition towards the development of a linux agent here: http://communities.vmware.com/message/2004605#2004605

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bfpacs
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With Microsoft VDA the cost of the View solutions it to expensive. If I would use Ubuntu for free and bypass the VDA I can make a MUCH stronger argument to implement View.

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