Anyone have a working background in VMware?

[brett05]

I have a question about it.

We have a web application that requires a an older version of Java in addition to IE 8 or IE 9.
Our snapshot has the correct version of java and IE on it now.
Would like to be able to ThinApp to see that an older version of IE with the older version of Java is always available.
Can this be done?
Would it just overwrite the settings that might already be part of the snapshot?
How would you go about it?

 

[nvanprooyen]

Edit, I just re-read what you wrote...ignore that response.

 

[brett05]

Edit, I just re-read what you wrote...ignore that response.

What response?

 

[nvanprooyen]

I thought you were saying that you needed to test multiple versions of IE on the same image. I suggested you use IE Tester - http://my-debugbar.com/wiki/IETester/HomePage . Then I edited it.

 

[brett05]

I thought you were saying that you needed to test multiple versions of IE on the same image. I suggested you use IE Tester - http://my-debugbar.com/wiki/IETester/HomePage . Then I edited it.

Ah.. Yeah, not necessarily different versions, just one thinapp of say IE9 with like Java 6.12

 

[Crystallas]

I do a ton of virtualization, but I don't use thinapp.

So yes to your question. Snapshots and states are saved in a file. So if you can't save multiple snapshots, you would have to find the file in your file-browser(windows explorer), and copy/paste it back into that directory, add the suffix _aug_07_13 or something to the end, so you can keep better track of your files. Now you have a working snapshot saved, and you can experiment all you want to learn the functions of ThinApp better. If you screw up, restore the back-up file.

 

[Crystallas]

http://blogs.vmware.com/thinapp/2009/01/custom-use-of-s.html


And look at that. Nailed it. Oh, except I didn't add the fact, that the virtualization environment must be identical. So as long as you don't mess with your virtual windows XP/7 or whatever, you'll be okay. VirtualBox is slightly more complex, but considerably better for transferring the entire VM into different machines IMO.

 

[Crystallas]

Also, for nvan and brett.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/firefox/addon/user-agent-switcher/

95% of the time, any site that claims it requires a special browser version, it can be fooled with a User Agent switcher. Java is a different story, I don't know how to spoof java versions in windows.

 

[nvanprooyen]

My testing with that is mostly to make sure things render ok in the various versions of IE. Since it is a gigantic pile of shit. Here is a graph that may be helpful:

 

[brett05]

Crys,

the issue isn't makign snapshots etc.

For me it's whether anyone has tried the Java wrap up with IE and if it is different then that which resides on an image if it will cause an issue.

I personally think it won't work at all, but I haven't had a chance to test. Ergo the question

 

[Crystallas]

Sorry then. Like I said, I don't use ThinApp. If I need a specific environment, I just do it on virtualbox. How I do it, is I have vanilla Windows VMs, then I clone the VM Operating System that I need, and install exactly the software required. This problem doesn't exist for specific versions of linux because you can configure multiple versions to work without virtualization. However, you could do that with any virtualized OS.

 

[Crystallas]

Ares or Shifty might have experience with ThinApp? :dunno:

 

[ShiftyDevil]

Ares or Shifty might have experience with ThinApp? :dunno:

I use VMWare at work, however I have never used ThinApp. Sorry Brett.