I am looking for open source solutions that provide application virtualization for Windows! In other words an open source to ThinApp from VMWare.
I have found several commercial options, but nothing open source:
I am looking for open source solutions that provide application virtualization for Windows! In other words an open source to ThinApp from VMWare.
I have found several commercial options, but nothing open source:
Cameyo offers free Application Virtualization and works very well. VirtualBox is typically used for OS virtualization.
After some searching I was able to find one open source project: http://code.google.com/p/appstract/
Haven't tested it, but is open source.
Open source Ulteo's Open Virtual Desktop has both VDI and Application Virtualization. For Windows, you could have only Application Server, available for 2003/2008 x86/x64.
sandboxie.com is the best one I have ran across. It let you virtualize an app creating a sandbox around it. After installing it creates an icon for a virtualized version of IE automatically.
VirtualBox will do the job very nicely on both 32-bit and 64-bit editions of Windows XP, Vista, Windows 7, 2003, and 2008. It is free, and open source, and it works very well to virtualize a wide range of 32-bit and 64-bit Operating Systems.