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VMware ThinApp 4.7 Essentials

By : Peter Bjork
Book Image

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

ThinApp Log Monitor


The ThinApp Log Monitor is a great log tool. It’s great because it captures everything that happens within the virtual environment. That being said, it’s close to impossible to find the issue because of all of the data it provides. I must be honest; I rarely use the ThinApp Log Monitor. It is my last resort when no other troubleshooting tool gives me any valuable data. You will often find ThinApp Log Monitor logs of 2GB or more, and that is in a clear text format. You can imagine the massive amounts of data contained in each of these files.

ThinApp Log Monitor can be found in the ThinApp utilities folder. You need to launch Log Monitor prior to launching the package for logging to start. Let’s create a log using Log Monitor:

Start by launching log_monitor.exe found in the ThinApp utilities folder.

Next, navigate to your package and launch it. You will notice that the log is being generated immediately. When the package is hosted on a network share, you will see at least...