The The Linux desktop pool.īecause the Linux VM wasn't a member of the domain, I couldn't log in to the Linux desktop as an AD user, so I needed to first log in to the VMware Horizon client as an AD user in the View Users Group and then, from the Linux desktop, log in as a Linux user.Īlthough I could log in to the VMware Horizon client, when I tried to access a Linux desktop I got the message that no desktops were available. Next, I created a pool named LinuxDesktop, allowed HTML access, selected my Linux VM, and entitled the View Users Active Directory Group to keep all other defaults ( Figure 1). To do this, I first created the Linux desktop pool from the VMware Horizon administrator by going to Catalog | Desktop Pools | Add | Manual Desktop Pool | vCenter virtual machines. To do this, I logged on to the VMware Horizon Administrator portal, created a new desktop pool and added the Linux desktop to it. Tar -xzf VMware-horizonagent-linux-x86_64-7.4.Ĭd VMware-horizonagent-linux-x86_64-7.4.0-7380911/Īfter the agent was installed on my Linux desktop, I created a Linux desktop pool. Then, I extracted it and installed it by running:

I installed the language by entering: sudo apt install python-dbus python-gobject.Īfter doing so, I downloaded the VMware Horizon agent for Linux to my Linux desktop from here.

The VMware Horizon agent uses the python programming language, which needs to be installed before being able to install the agent itself. I then rebooted the system and logged back into it. I first brought up a command line on the Ubuntu VM and installed a supported gnome session manager by entering: sudo apt install gnome-session-flashback. I'll be modifying the Ubuntu 16.04 VM that I a built earlier for the Linux Horizon desktop system in this article.

Installing Ubuntu 16.04 as a VM on ESXi is a relatively simple process, but it does have a few gotchas. In this article, I'll show you how to use this VM as a full clone guest on VMware Horizon. In a previous article, I showed you how to create an Ubuntu 16.04 virtual machine (VM).

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