To better understand what is meant by a clean capture VM, refer to the blog post What do you mean by “Clean PC”?. (Storing the captured application folders on the capture VM would result in the loss of all materials when the VM is reverted back to a clean snapshot state for the next application capture.) This file share must be accessible from the capture machine. You also need to establish a network file share to store your folders of captured applications. This post shows how to package the different versions of Microsoft Internet Explorer using VMware ThinApp, and how to enable the ThinDirect feature.īefore following these instructions, you need a clean capture virtual machine (VM) with Windows 7 SP1, the latest version of ThinApp installed on the capture machine, and a clean snapshot of the capture (VM).
By Bernie Watson, Systems Engineer, End-User Computing, VMware
