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VMware ThinApp 4.7 Essentials

By : Peter Bjork
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VMware ThinApp 4.7 Essentials

By: Peter Bjork

Overview of this book

VMware ThinApp 4.7 is an application virtualization and portable application creator which allows users to package conventional applications so that they are portable. "VMware ThinApp 4.7 Essentials" shows you how to deploy ThinApp packages in order to improve the portability, manageability and compatibility of applications by encapsulating them from the underlying operating system on which they are executed. Application virtualization improves the portability, manageability and compatibility of applications by encapsulating them from the underlying operating system on which they are executed. VMware ThinApp 4.7 is an application virtualization and portable application creator which allows users to package conventional applications so that they are portable. ThinApp eliminates application conflicts, reducing the need and cost of recoding and regression testing. In this book you will learn about how application virtualization works and how to deploy ThinApp packages. You will learn how to update and tweak ThinApp Projects before distribution. This book will then cover design and implementation considerations for future ThinApp projects.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)
VMware ThinApp 4.7 Essentials
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Running the Setup Capture wizard


Let's capture our first application together. The first couple of applications you capture should be easy ones. There's no point starting with the toughest possible application. One of the easiest applications to start with is Mozilla Firefox. If you do not currently own ThinApp, you can download a fully functional trial version from VMware's home page, http://www.vmware.com/thinapp. The trial version will generate time-bombed packages but the project folders it creates are fully functional and a simple rebuild, using a licensed copy of ThinApp, will produce unlimited packages. The following steps will help you capture our first application:

  1. Have a virtual machine available as your capturing environment. Personally I use VMware Fusion but any virtualization solution should work. Boot your capturing machine. I'm using Windows XP in this example but you should be able to run through the example using Windows 7 as well. Before doing anything else make sure you...