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Chapter 2 Capturing Applications
IfthePasswordsettingisnotused,thepasswordfortheguestisassumedtobeblank.MostWindowsvirtual
machinesdonotsupportautomationwithemptypasswords,soyoushouldspecifyaguestpassword.
PasswordPrompt
Specifiesthattheuserbepromptedtoenterapassword.
Ifyoudonotwanttostore
thevirtualmachinepasswordintheconfigurationfile,specifythevalueastrue.
Whensettotrue,apromptalwaysappears,evenifapasswordisspecifiedintheconfigurationfile.
Examples
FollowingisanexampleforanESXserver‐basedenvironment.Apasswordhasbeenspecifiedand,as
PasswordPrompt
issettofalse,theuserwillnotbepromptedtoenterapassword.
[VirtualMachine1]
VmxPath=[Storage] WinXP_Converter/WinXP_Converter.vmx
UserName=administrator
Password=secret
PasswordPrompt=false
FollowingisanexampleforaVMwareWorkstation‐basedvirtualmachine.Onvirtualmachine1,
PasswordPrompthasbeensettotrue.Theuserwillbepromptedforapasswordeventhoughapasswordhas
beenspecifiedintheconfiguration.
[VirtualMachine1]
VmxPath=C:\MyVMs\Windows XP\Windows XP.vmx
UserName=administrator
Password=secret
PasswordPrompt=true
[VirtualMachine2]
VmxPath=C:\MyVMs\Windows 7\Windows 7.vmx
UserName=adminuser@mydomain.com
Password=
PasswordPrompt=true
Settings
TheSettingssectionoftheconfigurationfilecontainstheparametersfortheapplicationinstallationdirectory
andThinAppprojectoutputdirectory,intheformofUNC.Italsocontainsseveralparameterscontrollingthe
conversionprocessbehavior.
ThinAppConverteronlyrequiresread‐onlypermissionsforthenetworksharethatcontainstheapplication
installers.
Itrequiresread/writepermissionsforthenetworksharethatcontainstheThinAppprojects.
Ifinputandoutputdirectoriesareonthesamefileserver,youmustusethesameuseraccounttoconnectthem.
InputUncPath
SpecifythenetworkshareUNCpathfortheapplicationinstallers.Forexample:\\fileserver\sharename,
or\\fileserver\sharename\dirname.
InputMountUserName
Specifythe
usernameusedforconnectingtothatnetworkshare.UPNformatcanbeusedwhenyouspecify
adomainuser,forexampleuser@domain.com
InputMountPasswordorInputMountPasswordBase64
Specifythepasswordforconnectingtothenetworkshare.Youhavethefollowingoptionswhenyouspecify
passwords:
 Youcanentercleartext.
 Youcanspecifyabase64encodedpasswordforthePasswordBase64 parameter.
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OTEDonotplacethepathinquotationmarks,evenifthepathcontainsaspace.