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Supported Desktop Operating Systems
Administrators create virtual machines with a guest operating system and install View Agent in the guest
operating system. End users can log in to these virtual machines from a client device.
For a list of the supported Windows guest operating systems, see the "Supported Operating Systems for
View Agent" topic in the View 5.x or 6.x installation documentation.
Install or Upgrade Horizon Client for Chrome OS
Horizon Client for Chrome OS is a Chrome OS app, and you install it just as you do other Chrome OS apps.
Prerequisites
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If you have not already set up the Chrome OS device, do so. See the manufacturer's user's guide for
your device.
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Verify that you have the URL for a download page that contains the Horizon Client installer. This URL
might be the VMware Downloads page at http://www.vmware.com/go/viewclients.
Procedure
1 Browse to the URL for downloading the Horizon Client for Chrome OS app, or search for the Horizon
Client for Chrome OS app in the Chrome Web Store.
2 Download and install the app.
3 To determine that the installation succeeded, verify that the Horizon Client for Chrome OS app icon
appears in the Chrome App Launcher.
Horizon Client Data Collected by VMware
If your company participates in the customer experience improvement program, VMware collects data from
certain Horizon Client fields. Fields containing sensitive information are made anonymous.
VMware collects data on the clients to prioritize hardware and software compatibility. If your company's
administrator has opted to participate in the customer experience improvement program, VMware collects
anonymous data about your deployment in order to improve VMware's response to customer requirements.
No data that identifies your organization is collected. Horizon Client information is sent first to View
Connection Server and then on to VMware, along with data from View servers, desktop pools, and remote
desktops.
The administrator who installs View Connection Server can select whether to participate in the VMware
customer experience improvement program while running the View Connection Server installation wizard,
or an administrator can set an option in View Administrator after the installation.
Table 1‑1. Data Collected from Horizon Clients for the Customer Experience Improvement Program
Description
Is This Field
Made
Anonymous
? Example Value
Company that produced the
Horizon Client application
No VMware
Product name No VMware Horizon Client
Client product version No (The format is x.x.x-yyyyyy, where x.x.x is the client version
number and yyyyyy is the build number.)
Using VMware Horizon Client for Chrome OS
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