
So as an example, you could capture an application and grab the. exe files that serve as entry points for the application.

The Capture tool can also output ‘standalone’. Application installs are simply captured with very little input required during the process. VMWare achieve portability by removing the requirement for a client software to be on an end user device in order to run a virtualized application, this certainly set it apart from other solutions such as App-V. This is still a major selling point, however the product has also progressed significantly over the last 2 to 3 years.

A few years ago the feather in the cap for VMWare with ThinApp was how portable the applications can be. It appears currently that Microsofts App-V is the market leader with VMWare ThinApp the second most widely used solution. There’s now many different application virtualization technologies on the market.
