Novell ZENWORKS APPLICATION VIRTUALIZATION 8.0.1 - 8-20-2010 User Manual page 81

9.8 S
PECIFYING ADDITIONAL
APPLICATION
ZENworks Application Virtualization users may want to specify additional SVM layers for
applications, in the case of updates or patches. ZENworks Application Virtualization allows two
mechanisms for doing this.
The first mechanism is via the command line using the /XLayerPath= syntax. This syntax takes
a path with optional wildcards to additional SVMs to load.
An example of a specified SVM path using a wildcard:
virtual-app.exe /XLayerPath=@APPDIR@\patches\*.svm
An example of specifying SVMs from multiple locations:
virtual-app.exe /XLayerPath=@APPDIR@/patches/*.svm
/XLayerPath=@APPDIR@\officepatches\*.svm
An example of specifying SVMs on a network share:
virtual-app.exe /XLayerPath=\\network\share\patches\*.svm
An example using Microsoft Office:
MSOffice.exe /XLayerPath=c:\Patches\MSOffice_*.svm.
This would do a wildcard match finding any files such as MSOffice_001.svm in the c:\Patches
directory.
Note: The SVMs are applied in reverse-alphabetical priority. This means that items in
MSOffice_002.svm have higher priority than items in MSOffice_001.svm.
The second mechanism is a XAPPL file specified way to load additional SVM files. It is via the
<XLayers> portion of the XAPPL file and has the following elements:
Attribute
XLayerSearchPattern
<RequiredXLayername="@APPDIR@\APP.svm">
A Sample XAPPL configuration is as follows:
83
SVM
LAYERS FOR A VIRTUAL
Description
Attribute to provide the
default search pattern,
similar to what would be
passed to /XLayerPath
Sub-elements specifying
which SVM must be loaded,
or else an error is reported
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