Loading And Saving Configurations - Novell ZENWORKS APPLICATION VIRTUALIZATION - V8.0.3 User Manual

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OADING AND SAVING CONFIGURATIONS
Once you have configured your virtual application, and taken your "After" snapshot, you will
likely want to save the configuration for future use or modification. It is important to save the
virtual application snapshot in its original state in case errors are introduced during virtual
application customization and optimization. This also allows the application to be tested and
modified without the need to re-snapshot after each iteration.
To save a configuration:
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Click on the Start button menu and select Save Configuration As...
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Select a filename and location and click Save. This saves the virtual application
configuration file. By default, configuration files use the extension .xappl.
Note: Configuration files do not store the contents of virtual filesystem files. The configuration
file specifies only the source path for each virtual filesystem entry. The source file must exist at
build time or the virtual application will not build successfully.
ZENworks Application Virtualization automatically stores source file locations as paths relative to
the location of the saved XAPPL file, in the same directory as the XAPPL file (the folder marked
Files).
Note: ZENworks Application Virtualization users can create their own default settings for
application building by saving a XAPPL file with a few customization settings (E.g. changing the
default sandbox location) and no associated application, then loading this XAPPL file (and saving
as a new file) before beginning the snapshot process in a new project.
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