Application Virtualization

[REVENGE]

I've been looking at different app virtualization solutions these past few days. The market seems rather vast, but all the established / well known players have either too many caveats or are too much of a hassle to use. In general, I want something that can virtualize many popular apps such as Office, Itunes, Spring, etc and let me take those with me on a USB drive.

Stuff I've looked at:
Mojopac - Comes with your own virtual desktop and is easy to use, but ONLY WORKS FOR XP 32BIT WTF

Ceedo - Looks the most promising, but reviewers have complained that its custom setup component is worthless

Prayaya - Crappily packaged Chinese Ceedo clone

U3 - Only works with U3 flash drives, doesn't completely virtualize the app (stuff is written to the host comp)

VMWare ThinApp - I trust VMWare to have really good compatibility, but the whole process of using a clean-installed OS to setup apps seems like a pain

Xenocode - Haven't found it on Bittorrent, so

Do you guys have any recommendations?

[aegis]

thinstall

[REVENGE]

thinstall

VMWare Thinapp :/

[lurker]

Since you've been looking at these please satisfy my laziness and tell me which ones need administrator privileges. And U3 isn't even a virtualizer, it's just a packaging mechanism.. there's a reason I replaced the U3 iso on my flash drive.

[REVENGE]

Since you've been looking at these please satisfy my laziness and tell me which ones need administrator privileges. And U3 isn't even a virtualizer, it's just a packaging mechanism.. there's a reason I replaced the U3 iso on my flash drive.

Lets see, Ceedo claims to not need it, ThinApp probably doesn't need it, don't know about Xenocode or Prayaya, Mojopac does need it.

[aegis]

thinstall

VMWare Thinapp :/

it's really slick, and you can easily use a vmware machine with snapshots to unobtrusively keep a cleanly installed os in the background

[REVENGE]

thinstall

VMWare Thinapp :/

it's really slick, and you can easily use a vmware machine with snapshots to unobtrusively keep a cleanly installed os in the background

Heh, I guess I've just done that so often, that it's become tiring.

[REVENGE]

Fuck Sophos, piece of shit application blocker. :/

[Tribulexrenamed]

I run spring from a FD straight, and it runs fine. Just have to change the settings every time, and if you give a shit about cleaning up after yourself, its not portable.