2011年12月12日星期一
有关VMware ThinApp
VMware ThinApp (formerly Thinstall) is an application virtualization and portable application creator suite by VMware that can package conventional applications so that they become portable applications. According to VMware, the product has a success rate of about 90-95% in packaging applications.
History
ThinApp (previously known as Thinstall) was originally developed by Jitit Inc. and was acquired by VMware on January 15, 2008. VMware later used the code name VMware Project North Star while the product was in beta. On June 10, 2008, VMware announced that the final name for the product was going to be VMware ThinApp. The trial version of Thinstall was initially available only to corporations,however VMware now offers a public trial version.
[edit]Technology
VMware ThinApp is an application virtualization solution.ThinApp is able to execute applications without them being installed in the traditional sense by virtualizing resources such as environment variables, files and Windows Registry keys. The virtual environment presented to the client is a merged view of the underlying physical and virtual resources, thereby allowing the virtualization layer to fool the application into thinking that it is running as if it were fully installed. ThinApp does not have any pre-installed components and does not require the installation of device drivers allowing applications to run from USB keys or network shares without ever requiring Administrator rights. （ThinApp不需要任何预先安装的组件，也不需要安装驱动，允许应用从usb设备或从网络启动，甚至不需本来需要的管理员权限）ThinApp converts standard application installers such as .msi files into self-contained EXE files which includes everything required to run. Also it is able to scan a system before and after an applications installation and create a portable executable based upon changes made to the systems files and registry. Unlike self-extracting ZIP files, ThinApp does not extract files to disk or require system registry changes in order to run applications. ThinApp supports all released x86-based Windows systems from Windows NT4, 2000, XP (64/32), Vista (64/32), Server 2003, Server 2008 (64), Server 2008 R2 (64), and Windows 7 (64/32).
[edit]Editions
The most "basic" version of ThinApp is "VMware ThinApp Starter Edition", offered for free with any purchase of VMware Workstation, while the most "advanced" version is "VMware ThinApp Enterprise Edition", which adds support for AppSync updating, Active Directory integration and allows usage by multiple users (both for the ThinApp Packager and ThinApp Client).
[edit]Software compatibility
Many Windows applications can be packaged and made portable with VMware ThinApp, with the following notable exceptions（下列情况应用不能被虚拟化）:
- Any software that installs and requires a device driver to function. Applications that use pre-installed device drivers can function without issues.（需要安装设备驱动才能正常工作的软件不能通过VMware ThinApp虚拟化，但是调用预先安装的设备驱动不存在问题）
- Some software with copy protection based on hardware. ThinApp will virtualize some hardware properties such as harddrive serial numbers but applications that bind to things like ethernet MAC address or CPU-ID may not run when moved to another PC.（使用mac地址或cpu-id等硬件信息来保护版权的软件不能被ThinApp虚拟化，类似硬盘序列号的硬件信息可被模拟）
// 发贴者：放牛娃的春天 @ 十二月 12, 2011 
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