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Chapter 10: Creating Customized Virtual Applications
About Virtualization
Benefits of Application Virtualization
Virtual applications run in virtual environments that keep the application layer and the operating system layer
separate. Each application includes its own configuration information in its virtual environment. As a result, many
applications can run side-by-side with other applications on the same computer without any conflicts.
Even though virtual applications are not installed on the local machine, they exhibit the same performance,
functionality, and access to local services as a locally installed application would have.
The following diagram provides an example of how application virtualization would solve the conflicts shown in the
previous example.
Figure 10-2: Example of Application Virtualization
Application virtualization allows the configuration of an application to be standardized to an isolation environment,
rather than to an individual user's desktop machine. Application objects, files, and registry settings are contained
within this isolation environment. Critical application resources are managed locally by the isolation environment,
thus minimizing resource dependencies between applications.
Application virtualization greatly reduces the scope for conflicts between applications and, therefore, simplifies
compatibility testing.
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