VMware Horizon View Client for Mac OS X Release Notes

Last Updated: 14 March 2013

These release notes cover the following topics:

• Key Features
• What's New in This Release
• Internationalization
• Before You Begin
• Resolved Issues
• Known Issues

Key Features

VMware Horizon View Client for Mac OS X makes it easy to access your Windows virtual desktop from your Mac with the best possible user experience on the Local Area Network (LAN) or across a Wide Area Network (WAN).

• Support for Mac OS X Snow Leopard (10.6.8), Mac OS X Lion (10.7), and Mac OS X Mountain Lion (10.8) - Use an Intel-based Mac to work on your Windows-based Horizon View virtual desktop.
• Unmatched performance - The adaptive capabilities of the PCoIP display protocol are optimized to deliver the best user experience, even over low-bandwidth and high-latency connections. Your desktop is fast and responsive regardless of where you are.
• Simple connectivity - Horizon View Client for Mac OS X is tightly integrated with VMware Horizon View for simple setup and connectivity. Quickly reconnect to your desktop by selecting from up to four Horizon View server shortcuts in Horizon View Client.
• Secure from any location - At your desk or away from the office, your data is delivered securely to you wherever you are. Enhanced certificate checking is performed on the client. Horizon View Client for Mac OS X also supports optional RADIUS and RSA SecurID authentication. (RADIUS support was added with VMware View 5.1 and View Client for Mac OS X 1.5 or later.)

Horizon View Client Feature Support Matrix

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What's New in This Release

VMware Horizon View Client for Mac OS X 2.0 includes the following new features:

• Support for multiple monitors - If you use the PCoIP display protocol when accessing a View desktop, you can use up to 2 monitors, with a resolution of up to 2560x1600 per display.
• Retina Display support - If you use the PCoIP display protocol, Horizon View Client supports very high resolutions for those client systems with Retina Display.
• USB redirection enhancements - If you use View Connection Server and View Agent 5.1 or later, you can now configure Horizon View Client to split composite USB devices. Composite USB devices consist of a combination of two or more devices, such as a video input device and a storage device. You can enable automatic device splitting or you can specify how to split composite devices.
• Localization support for Traditional Chinese - Both the Horizon View Client user interface and documentation are now available in Traditional Chinese.

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Internationalization

The user interface and documentation for Horizon View Client are available in English, Japanese, French, German, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, and Korean.

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Before You Begin

• Horizon View Client requires a Mac OS X Snow Leopard (10.6.8), Mac OS X Lion (10.7), or Mac OS X Mountain Lion (10.8) operating system running on an Intel-based Mac.
• Horizon View Client is supported with VMware View 4.6.1 or later.
• If you have an older version of this client software, before you download the installer for this new version of Horizon View Client for Mac OS X, take the following steps:
  1. Remove the older version. Drag the VMware View Client application from the Applications folder to the Trash and empty the trash. This step ensures that, after you install the new version, the application icon in the launch pad will be updated to show VMware Horizon View Client.
  2. Remove the VMware View Client shortcut from the Dock.
• To install, download the disk image file from the VMware Horizon View Client download page.
• For system requirements and installation instructions, see Using VMware Horizon View Client for Mac OS X.

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Resolved Issues

The following issue was fixed in this release of Horizon View Client for Mac OS X:

• Previously, if you used the PCoIP display protocol on some Mac OS X Lion (10.7) or Mountain Lion (10.8) systems and displayed the View desktop in full screen mode, when you clicked on the battery, date and time, or search icons on the right side of the menu bar, the pointer moved to the middle of the screen. This issue has been resolved.

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Known Issues

• If you use the PCoIP display protocol, connecting some password-protected storage devices (such as IronKey USB flash drives) might not work correctly. For example, after you redirect the device to the View desktop, the password prompt does not appear. The View desktop shows that a new drive was added and so displays a new drive letter but no corresponding label to identify the device.
  Workaround: Configure Horizon View Client to automatically connect the device when you insert it. From the Horizon View Client menu bar, select Desktop > USB > Autoconnect USB Devices on Insert.
• If you have Horizon View Client open in windowed mode and you attach an external monitor that has the same or a higher resolution than the original display (for example, if the primary monitor has a resolution of 1650x1080 and you attach an external monitor with a resolution of 1920x1200), if you then move the Horizon View Client window to the external monitor and expand it to full screen mode, the Horizon View Client menu bar appears on the external monitor rather than on the original monitor.
  
  The Horizon View Client toolbar remains on the monitor where the Horizon View Client window was located before expanding to full screen mode.
• Multiple monitors are not supported on Mac OS X Snow Leopard (10.6.8).
• Because Horizon View Client is available in Korean, whereas View Connection Server 4.6.x is not, if you use Horizon View Client on a Korean system, you will find that messages that originate from the client are available in Korean, but messages that originate from View Connection Server 4.6.x appear in English.
• Because the key combination Command+Tab on an Apple keyboard is used for switching applications on Mac OS X, using this key combination has no effect in a View desktop. For View desktops that run Windows 7, this means that there is no equivalent of the key combination Windows+Tab for using Windows Flip 3D.
  Workaround: You can use the key combination Command+Control+Tab for Windows Flip 3D, but you must also press Enter choose the application you want to switch to.

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