I’m really surprised that it works, but a guy from France got a Linux VM working with the VMware View Agent. I don’t speak French but what I get from his article is that he used Xrdp in the VM. I guess he used Wine, a Windows emulator for Linux to get the View Agent running. It’s awesome, check his blog. But don’t forget: This is highly unsupported.

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There is a new  beta version of the View Open Client available for download at the Google Code community. One of the new features is smart card support. To allow that you’ve to copy your PKCS#11 modules in /usr/lib/vmware/view/pkcs11 and use Rdesktop version 1.5.0 as minimum. A detailed description can be found in the readme.txt file within the download package.

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