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System Requirements

The Standard Agent for Linux depends on the following system capacities and capabilities:

Supported Instance Types

VMware ESXi (6.0+) KVM AWS EC2 Microsoft Azure Google Cloud Platform
VMware Hardware Version 11 QEMU/KVM Any instance type
that meets the instance requirements		 Any Generation 1 instance type
that meets the instance requirements		 Any instance type
that meets the instance requirements

Host Instance Requirements

Global instance requirements
Operating Systems
  • Ubuntu 16.04 LTS, 18.04 LTS
  • RHEL/CentOS 7.7, 7.8
Remote Host Memory At least 2GB of RAM is required on the host desktop.
The agent should have at least 512MB of available memory.
Remote Host CPUs At least 2 CPUs are required on the host desktop.
Processors must support Streaming SIMD Extensions (SSE) 4.2.
To use PCoIP Ultra, processors must support the AVX2 instruction set.
Network Ports The following ports must be open on the host desktop:
  • TCP 443
  • TCP 4172
  • UDP 4172
  • TCP 60443
Storage At least 100MB for installation and 100MB for logging are recommended.
User Cannot be root. You must create a user account for PCoIP connections.

Using a standalone physical PC

You can enable PCoIP connections to a standalone computer, without a discreet GPU, via the Standard Agent for Linux. For more information and instructions, see Teradici Cloud Access Software Instructions for Standalone Computers in the Teradici Knowledge Base.

Note: Elastic GPU and other EC2 instances supported

The PCoIP The Standard Agent for Linux supports a variety of EC2 instances, including elastic GPU types such as eg1.large. Refer to Amazon EC2 Elastic GPUs documentation for more information.