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Creating a Virtual OS

Wise Package Studio Reference
See also:
Using SetupCapture With Virtual Capture
Creating a Virtual OS on page 239
Not available in Standard Edition.
Before you use SetupCapture with Virtual Capture, use the Virtual OS Creation utility to
create a Virtual OS.
See Guidelines for Virtual Capture
The Virtual OS Creation utility makes a copy of the entire computer, except Recycler and
files that have system attributes, such as pagefile.sys.
To create a virtual OS
1. Copy the VirtualOS.exe file to a clean machine. It is located in the Wise Package
Studio\Workbench directory.
2. On the clean machine, open VirtualOS.exe.
The Virtual OS Location page appears.
3. In Name of Virtual OS, enter a descriptive name to identify this Virtual OS.
(Example: Clean Windows XP.) This name will be displayed in SetupCapture and the
Universal Import option in the Import Wizard.
4. Specify where to locate the Virtual OS:
Create a Virtual OS on this PC
Select this option if you plan to perform captures on the current clean machine.
This would be the case if you are working in a clean build environment.
Create a Virtual OS file and copy to a shared location
Select this option if the current computer is clean, but you plan to perform
captures on another, non-clean machine. Also select this option if you plan to
use the Universal Import feature in Software Manager. Click Browse to specify a
location for the Virtual OS file. The file will be extremely large, so select a
location with plenty of disk space.
5. Click Next.
Creation of the Virtual OS begins. This can take several minutes to complete. When
it is finished, "Current Status is Scan Completed" appears on the page.
6. Click Finish.
If you created the Virtual OS on this computer, your hard drive contains a new
directory, which contains a copy of all files on this computer. Also, a new registry
branch contains a copy of the entire registry.
If you created a Virtual OS file, then a .WOS file is created in the location you
specified. This file is large because it contains a copy of the registry and of every file
on the computer.
You can now perform a SetupCapture using Virtual Capture.
See also:
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Capturing Applications
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