VMware launched First Free, Open-source VMware View desktop Linux client. On Feb. 03 VMware announced Free Open-Source VMware View client download availability. In December 08, VMware released new version of VMware desktop Infrastructure now called VMware View which allows users to access desktop, laptop and VMware virtual desktops through web browser or by installing VMware View Client. VMware View client was only available for Microsoft Windows users and there wasn’t any client available for Mac OS X and Linux users, since then lot of VMware users complained about releasing VMware View client for Linux and Mac OS X.

Finally VMware listened to their customers valuable advice and released VMware View Open clients for Linux that can be run on all Linux distributions including – Red Hat, Novell Suse Enterprise, CentOS, Fedora and Ubuntu Linux. VMware is facing strong completion from Citrix who offers their own Desktop virtualization solution which is pretty attractive to customers who are looking to bring unified virtual desktop solution into their IT environment, Citrix virtual desktop can be  accessed from any operating system – Linux, UNIX, Windows and Mac OS X because Citrix virtual desktop client uses own proprietary protocol called ICA (Independent computing Architecture) .VMware announcement of free VMware View Linux client is smart move for VMware, also i heard from reliable sources that VMware Mac OS client is underway that is going to be released pretty soon. These new VMware client releases (Linux and Mac OS X)  will put VMware View ahead of Citrix desktop offering.

VMware View Open Client is available under GNU public License as free downloads . You can download VMware View Open Linux client from Google code.

Free Linux VMware View downloads

Download VMware View 2.1.1-144385 for Debian

http://vmware-view-open-client.googlecode.com/files/VMware-view-open-client_2.1.1-144835_i386.deb

Download VMware View 2.1.1-144385 for Suse Linux Enterprise Thin Client

http://vmware-view-open-client.googlecode.com/files/VMware-view-open-client-lite-2.1.1-144835.i386.rpm

Download VMware View 2.1.1-144385 binary RPM for CentOS, Fedora, RHEL 3/4/5 Linux

http://vmware-view-open-client.googlecode.com/files/VMware-view-open-client-2.1.1-144835.i386.rpm

Download VMware View 2.1.1-144385 binary in tar format

http://vmware-view-open-client.googlecode.com/files/VMware-view-open-client-2.1.1-144835.tar.gz

Download VMware View 2.1.1-144385 Source to compile on Linux platforms

http://vmware-view-open-client.googlecode.com/files/VMware-view-open-client-source-2.1.1-144835.tar.gz

For installing VMware View Linux client installation instructions are available on VMware View open client Wiki.VMware View Linux client comes with ability to create secure tunnel using SSL. The VMware View Linux client also supports two factor authentication with RSA SecurID and full command line interface.However VMware view Linux client is missing USB redirection, Multiple desktop sessions and Multimedia redirection features.This new release of VMware View Linux client is compatible with VMware Virtual Desktop Manager (VDM) 2.0, 2.1, and VMware View Manager 3.0.

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