[clug] VMware ThinApps: anything like this in the FOSS/Linux world?

[Kim Holburn]

Wow, disruptive.  That could almost make apps platform independent.  Has implications.  Just how thin is thin?

On 2011/Apr/30, at 12:43 PM, steve jenkin wrote:

> I've just stumbled across VMware's "ThinApp" (for Windows only).
> 
> Doesn't need an install or O/S drivers - like PKzip's self-extracting
> archives, everything is there in one blob, an EXE.
> 
> Does the same functionality exist in the FOSS world?
> Can I do something like this for QEMU or anything else?
> 
> regards
> steve j
> 
> ======================================================
> 
> <http://www.vmware.com/products/thinapp/overview.html>
> 
> With VMware ThinApp, applications are packaged into single executables
> that run completely isolated from each other and the operating system
> for conflict-free execution on end-point devices.
> 
> Package Once, Deploy Everywhere
> 
> Deploy virtualized applications in user mode, without administrative rights.
> No device drivers are installed and no registry changes are made because
> the entire application and its virtual OS are delivered as a single EXE
> file.
> 
> Transparently stream large applications from a shared network drive with
> no server or client software to install.
> 
> 
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