Vmware Horizon Client 2306 8.10

[rohrbachger]

Iḿ trying to get the newest client installed. The bundle installed seems to fail already, I do not see the files in the package folder installed. The python install seems to work a little bit different than for older versions.

This I found in the logs. 2023-10-01 09:02:46,894] Error: Cannot load installer for component: vmware-horizon-file-association. [2023-10-01 09:02:46,895] Top level exception handler Traceback (most recent call last):

Anybody successfull with this or some hints?

build:

INSTALLING VMVIEW VMVIEW is not installed, we need to setup binary file. This only needs to be done once.

Continue? (Y/N) y not a dynamic executable Extracting VMware Installer...done. Installation was unsuccessful. Extracting VMware Installer...done. Unable to load gtk: No module named gtk, falling back to console. Component Name Component Long Name Component Version
==================== ======================================== ==================== cp: cannot stat './packages/vmview/var/log/vmware/*': No such file or directory sed: can't read ./packages/vmview/bin/vmware-view: No such file or directory rm: cannot remove './packages/vmview/lib/vmware/libudev.so.0': No such file or directory vmview: Setup Complete

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vmware-installer-576801.log vmware-installer-576863.log install.strace.TXT

[rohrbachger]

I found: No module named configparser. I installed both py2 and 3 version in the build, but probably this does not help in the chroot for the install. How I can fix this? I dont need this vmware-horizon-file-association, but I did not found a way to disable he installation. Is not really a component.

exec fileObj in mod.__dict__

File "/tmp/tmpACz9d4/.installer/8.10.0/vmware-horizon-file-association.py", line 7, in import configparser ImportError: No module named configparser

[Doncuppjr]

Hmmmm, might need to create a port for that python module and then add it to the manifest of ports that are put into a chroot for the VMware install. Alternatively, could put in a routine to install python ports into the special chroot for installing VMware.

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I found: No module named configparser. I installed both py2 and 3 version in the build, but probably this does not help in the chroot for the install. How I can fix this? I dont need this vmware-horizon-file-association, but I did not found a way to disable he installation. Is not really a component. exec fileObj in mod.dict

File "/tmp/tmpACz9d4/.installer/8.10.0/vmware-horizon-file-association.py", line 7, in import configparser ImportError: No module named configparser

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[rohrbachger]

I think I fixed it. Was not that complicate , I switched to python3 , pip 3 and it works. I tested the connection to our horizon farm.

I will test more and will put all the things together for commit. One part for commit its just the needed changes in the package vmview.

More difficult is the part to get the gcc port updated, the steps are already documented in the wiki. Probably I need some help for this.

[Doncuppjr]

I ran your wiki page through the GPT, and cleaned it up a little. Thank you for the contribution.

[rohrbachger]

Where did you put it? It is not anymore in the Wiki at the same place, and unfortunately I have no copy...

I would like to add some more documentation, to make it other people easier to use. We are using iPXE and boot an 500MB image over the network environment. (http) With 1GB connection it is fast, 100Mbit is more slow.. Classic Windows AD environment, Windows DHCP, but Linux is delivering the ISO to the pxe clients with apache This works well over the last years. PXE with iPXE is really cool, we are starting also WIndows PE with this for windows client installations. I think TS, iPXE are a very interesting combination in a smaller Windows network. But to figure this all out to work in combination takes ages. The Clients are Lenovo, Dell, no disk necessary, just setup for PXE boot and getting the boot information with iPXE and TS. We are using VMview, but this does not matter.

[Doncuppjr]

Update a Port

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On Sunday, October 8, 2023 at 02:34:40 AM MDT, rohrbachger ***@***.***> wrote:  

Where did you put it? It is not anymore in the Wiki at the same place, and unfortunately I have no copy...

I would like to add some more documentation, to make it other people easier to use. We are using iPXE and boot an 500MB image over the network environment. (http) With 1GB connection it is fast, 100Mbit is more slow.. Classic Windows AD environment, Windows DHCP, but Linux is delivering the ISO to the pxe clients with apache This works well over the last years. PXE with iPXE is really cool, we are starting also WIndows PE with this for windows client installations. I think TS, iPXE are a very interesting combination in a smaller Windows network. But to figure this all out to work in combination takes ages. The Clients are Lenovo, Dell, no disk necessary, just setup for PXE boot and getting the boot information with iPXE and TS. We are using VMview, but this does not matter.

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[Aleksa2022]

I think I fixed it. Was not that complicate , I switched to python3 , pip 3 and it works. I tested the connection to our horizon farm.

Can I ask you to clarify a little:

1. How did you switch to python 3?
2. How are you doing with certificates? - I have implemented my certificates and vmview 8.2 is perfectly assembled and running, but when I try to install version 8.8.1+, my certificates stop working. I don't change anything from the previous working version with 8.2, but they don't work. So far I have managed to achieve an image with working certificates and updated components - Xorg, firmware, kernel, etc., but with the vmview 8.2 client...

[rohrbachger]

Sure, I can help. Last week I finished testing, and we are running now VMware-Horizon-Client-2306-8.10.0-21964631.x64.bundle on about 20 ThinStations. If that works, we will rollout to about 100.

Python3, that part is simple. Im, unfortunately not very familiar with git, Im still fighting to get a pull request working. In the build/package/build/install you need to change some lines. I attached the file, I needed to rename from install to install.txt.

To get this new version, and also already the 8.9 a more actual version version of gcc is needed. I was able with Don's help to get the gcc12.2 working. This tooks really long time.. I will try this weekend, to get 2 pull requests, one for view package and another for gcc. I attached the renamed package file fo gcc,

My repository for thinstation is rohrbachger, you can see already the change for the view client what I have done. The gcc is a large package, I was not able to put it on git, still searching a way. If you are a little bit familiar, this wiki page I did can help:https://github.com/Thinstation/thinstation/wiki/Update-a-Port

Certificates: In my company we are using an official wildcard certificate for horizon view. We newer had issues, but of course with testing on old machines we had to correct date and time sometimes... We are using Horizon UAG gateways with the free Kemp Load balancers for remote workers, for internal use in most cases thinstation ( still 100 laptops with windows on top) The package ca-bundle is needed. But if you have a very closed environment, without internet access ( I remember, we had some issues a while ago) the verification of the vmware certificates may fail. Probably this is the reason for your issues. Iḿ in the good situation to manage also the firewall, so I think we made exceptions for the certificate verification. No access in the moment, but if details are needed let me know.

You wrote you updated XORG and kernel. This knowledge Iḿ interested in. I want to update XORG and XFCE, this will a big ask for the next months.. We have for an very old application some issues with the resolution and scaling.

Pkgfile.ts-ports-core-gcc.txt install.txt

[Doncuppjr]

I kind of have a 6.3 binary set compiled and waiting in the wings. Bugs with power management though. Might get to it this winter.

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On Saturday, October 21, 2023, 1:14 AM, rohrbachger @.***> wrote:

Sure, I can help. Last week I finished testing, and we are running now VMware-Horizon-Client-2306-8.10.0-21964631.x64.bundle on about 20 ThinStations. If that works, we will rollout to about 100.

Python3, that part is simple. Im, unfortunately not very familiar with git, Im still fighting to get a pull request working. In the build/package/build/install you need to change some lines. I attached the file, I needed to rename from install to install.txt.

To get this new version, and also already the 8.9 a more actual version version of gcc is needed. I was able with Don's help to get the gcc12.2 working. This tooks really long time.. I will try this weekend, to get 2 pull requests, one for view package and another for gcc. I attached the renamed package file fo gcc,

My repository for thinstation is rohrbachger, you can see already the change for the view client what I have done. The gcc is a large package, I was not able to put it on git, still searching a way. If you are a little bit familiar, this wiki page I did can help:https://github.com/Thinstation/thinstation/wiki/Update-a-Port

Certificates: In my company we are using an official wildcard certificate for horizon view. We newer had issues, but of course with testing on old machines we had to correct date and time sometimes... We are using Horizon UAG gateways with the free Kemp Load balancers for remote workers, for internal use in most cases thinstation ( still 100 laptops with windows on top) The package ca-bundle is needed. But if you have a very closed environment, without internet access ( I remember, we had some issues a while ago) the verification of the vmware certificates may fail. Probably this is the reason for your issues. Iḿ in the good situation to manage also the firewall, so I think we made exceptions for the certificate verification. No access in the moment, but if details are needed let me know.

You wrote you updated XORG and kernel. This knowledge Iḿ interested in. I want to update XORG and XFCE, this will a big ask for the next months.. We have for an very old application some issues with the resolution and scaling.

Pkgfile.ts-ports-core-gcc.txt install.txt

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[Aleksa2022]

You wrote you updated XORG and kernel. This knowledge Iḿ interested in. I want to update XORG and XFCE, this will a big ask for the next months.. We have for an very old application some issues with the resolution and scaling.

I'm sorry I didn't answer for a long time - I was away. Regarding Xorg, everything is simple: you need to update Xorg-server, then Xorg-xf86-video... I was updating: xorg-rgb xorg-server xorg-sessreg xorg-util-macros xorg-xcb-util xorg-xcb-util-image xorg-xcb-util-renderutil xorg-xclock xorg-xdpyinfo xorg-xdriinfo xorg-xev xorg-xf86-video-dummy xorg-xf86-video-intel xorg-xf86-video-vesa xorg-xf86-video-vmware xorg-xfce xorg-xfsinfo xorg-xgamma xorg-xhost xorg-xinit xorg-xkill xorg-xlsfonts xorg-xmodmap xorg-xorg proto xorg-xprop xorg-xrandr xorg-xrdb xorg-xset xorg-xsetroot xorg-xtrans xorg-xvinfo xorg-xwininfo

The rest is optional. But it works fine for me. Sometimes, if there are problems with monitors (occasionally occurs), an update can help: xorg-libx11 xorg-x11perf

I won't say anything about xfce - I was updating IceWM. With him, too, there were no special problems like binutils, firmware and kernel are updated normally to 5.15.133. When updating to 5.19 ... I had some problems that I did not disassemble, but remained in the 5.15 branch.

[Aleksa2022]

I kind of have a 6.3 binary set compiled and waiting in the wings. Bugs with power management though. Might get to it this winter.

As an addition to the working version: I would like the kernel, glibc, gcc, horizon client, cmake, meson to be updated. Something didn't work out for me with Mason - there are many components that ask for a version older than it is (AppStream: Meson version 0.55.3, but the project requires >= 0.62), but after updating meson, problems begin with updating other packages. I have updated a lot of ports. There are quite a few of them that have not been updated since 2014-2017, but new versions have recently been released for them.

[Thinstation]

Yeah meson is a total PITA.

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I kind of have a 6.3 binary set compiled and waiting in the wings. Bugs with power management though. Might get to it this winter.

As an addition to the working version: I would like the kernel, glibc, gcc, horizon client, cmake, meson to be updated. Something didn't work out for me with Mason - there are many components that ask for a version older than it is (AppStream: Meson version 0.55.3, but the project requires >= 0.62), but after updating meson, problems begin with updating other packages. I have updated a lot of ports. There are quite a few of them that have not been updated since 2014-2017, but new versions have recently been released for them.

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[Doncuppjr]

I might be able to push a temp branch next week.

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On Monday, October 30, 2023, 8:32 AM, Alesandro @.***> wrote:

I kind of have a 6.3 binary set compiled and waiting in the wings. Bugs with power management though. Might get to it this winter.

As an addition to the working version: I would like the kernel, glibc, gcc, horizon client, cmake, meson to be updated. Something didn't work out for me with Mason - there are many components that ask for a version older than it is (AppStream: Meson version 0.55.3, but the project requires >= 0.62), but after updating meson, problems begin with updating other packages. I have updated a lot of ports. There are quite a few of them that have not been updated since 2014-2017, but new versions have recently been released for them.

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