![]() ![]() Notice how the packager scans the directories: ![]() You’ll then get to the section where the wizard will begin a Prescan on the Windows 7 desktop to create a baseline of the system environment: Once the snapshot or clone is complete, proceed with opening the ThinApp Setup Capture application on your Windows 7 desktop: Once the installation has completed, I would suggest that you shutdown the virtual machine and take a snapshot of the virtual machine or clone it so you keep a clean copy of the desktop operating system.Ĭapture the Application with ThinApp Setup Capture Tool … and install the packager onto your Windows 7 profiler (I’m used to using the word profiler because that’s what Citrix calls it): For this example, we’ll be using a Windows 7 desktop hosted on VMware ESXi 5.0 even though VMware does recommend using VMware Workstation.Ĭopy the VMware-ThinApp-Enterprise-4.7.0-519532.exe packager installation file over to a network share or the clean Windows 7 desktop and run the installer:Įnter the VMware ThinApp 4.6 Virtualization Packager license key and not the VMware ThinApp 4.6 Client License key into the installer: Support & Downloads –> Desktop & End-User Computing –> VMware ThinApp –> Download Licensed CopyĪs shown in the VMware View Administration – View 5.0 guide, the first thing we’ll need to do is actually set up a clean virtual machine with the desktop OS you intend on streaming the application to. I won’t go into the benefits of streaming vs installed as that can be found in VMware’s documentation but the purpose of this example is to show what packaging and eventually streaming to a VMware View desktop looks like.ĭownload and Install the ThinApp 4.7 Packagerīegin by downloading the latest version of VMware ThinApp (currently at version 4.7 as I write this post) via: I haven’t really gotten in a chance in the past to document the process of packaging and streaming an application with VMware’s ThinApp and since I’m currently deploying a new VMware View environment and had to package an application named SmartDraw, I took some extra time to capture the screenshots to show what the process looks like. ![]()
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