VMware THINAPP 4.6 - Isolatedsynchronizationobjects

ThinApp User’s Guide
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TheIsolatedMemoryObjectsparameterdoesnotappearinthePackage.inifilebutyoucanaddthe
parameter.ThinAppsetsaninitialvaluethatisolatesthememoryobjectsthatanativeversionofInternet
Explorerusesinthevirtualenvironment.Thevalueaddressesa conflictbetweentheexplorer.exeand
iexplore.exeutilitieswhentheutilities
mapsandboxfiles.YoucanusetheIsolatedMemoryObjects
parametertoisolateadditionalnamedsharedmemoryobjectstoensurethattheobjectsarevisibleonlytoother
virtualapplicationsusingthesamesandbox.
TheIsolatedMemoryObjectsparameteracceptsalistofentriesthatareseparatedbythesemicolon(;).
Each entrycancontainasterisk
(*) andquestionmark(?)wildcardcharacterstomatchvariablepatterns.
Examples
YoucanmodifytheIsolatedMemoryObjectsparametertoisolatethememoryobjectwiththeMy Shared
Objectnameandanymemoryobjectwithoutlookinthename.
[BuildOptions]
IsolatedMemoryObjects=*outlook*;My Shared Object
IsolatedSynchronizationObjects
TheIsolatedSynchronizationObjectsparameterliststhesynchronizationobjectstoisolatefromother
applications.
Synchronizationobjectscoordinateactionsbetweenapplications.ThefollowingWindowssynchronization
objectsmightappearinlogsforapplicationerrors:
 OpenMutex
 CreateMutex
 OpenSemaphore
 CreateSemaphore
 OpenEvent
 CreateEvent
Iftheseobjectsappearinlogfiles,youmightisolatetheobjectsinthevirtualenvironmenttoavoidacollision
withsynchronizationobjectsthatnativeapplicationscreate.Youcanisolatesynchronizationobjectsfrom
applicationsthatdonotruninthesamevirtualnamespace.If twoapplicationssharethesamesandboxpath,
theapplicationshavethesamenamespaceforisolatedsynchronizationobjects.Iftwoapplicationshavethe
samesandboxnamebutdifferentsandboxpaths,theapplicationshaveseparatenamespaces.
TheIsolatedSynchronizationObjectsparameterdoesnotappearinthePackage.inifilebutyoucan
addtheparameter.ThinAppsetsaninitialvaluethatmakessynchronization
objectsaccessibletoother
applications.Virtualapplicationswithdifferentsandboxescandetectthesynchronizationobjects.
TheIsolatedSynchronizationObjectsparameteracceptsalistofentriesthatareseparatedbythesemicolon(;).
Eachentrycanusetheasterisk(*) andquestionmark(?)aswildcard characterstomatchvariablepatterns.
Examples
YoucanmodifytheIsolatedSynchronizationObjectsparametertoisolatethesynchronizationobjectwith
theMy Shared Objectnameandthesynchronizationobjectwithoutlookinthename.
[BuildOptions]
IsolatedSynchronizationObjects=*outlook*;My Shared Object