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7.1
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ANUALLY CONFIGURING A SIMPLE VIRTUAL APPLICATION
This section provides a walkthrough of manual configuration for a simple virtual application in
ZENworks Application Virtualization, based on the Windows Notepad application. In general,
manual configuration should only be performed by experienced software developers virtualizing
internally developed software applications.
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Click on the Filesystem button.
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Click on the Application Directory folder.
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Click on Add Files....
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Navigate to the System32 folder under your Windows installation directory and double-
click on notepad.exe. This adds the Windows Notepad executable to the virtual
application.
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(Windows Vista only) Click on Add Folder and set the new folder name to en-us.
Navigate into the en-us folder and click Add Files.... Navigate to the System32\en-us
folder under your Windows installation directory and double-click on notepad.exe.mui.
This file is required by the version of Notepad which shipped with Windows Vista.
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Using Notepad or another text editor (on your machine, not the virtual application),
create a file called hello.txt containing the text "Hello world" and save it to the Desktop
folder.
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In ZENworks Application Virtualization, Click on Add Files... again, navigate to your
Desktop folder and select the hello.txt file that you just created. The display on the right
should now show both notepad.exe and hello.txt.
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If it is not already visible, click on the Virtual Application tab on the ribbon bar to
display the virtual application settings.
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In the Startup File dropdown, select notepad.exe. The startup file indicates which
executable or file will be executed when the virtual application is started by the user.
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Click on the Browse... button next to the Output Directory textbox. Navigate to your
Desktop folder and press OK.
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Press the Build button. ZENworks Application Virtualization will now display a status
dialog while it builds your virtual application.
To use your new Notepad virtual application, navigate to your desktop in a shell window and
double-click on Notepad.exe. The Notepad application starts.
But how do we know we are inside a virtual application? In the shell, delete the hello.txt file from
the desktop. Now, inside the Notepad window, click File / Open..., and navigate to the Desktop
folder. Notice that the hello.txt file is still present! This is because the Notepad virtual application
is using the virtual filesystem, which includes the hello.txt file that we added in the sixth step.
You can open and view hello.txt exactly as if it were a real file in the physical filesystem.
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