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VMware offers step by step instructions on creating a ThinApp package of the VI 2.5 Client

Over at the VMware ThinApp blog, Dean Flaming posted the steps needed in order to virtualize your VI 2.5 client in a ThinApp package. Read carefully, Dean wants you to understand the limitations and lack of support on this thing. Note the NOTE, UNSUPPORTED and WARNING claims.

These are instructions on how to package the VMware Virtual Infrastructure 2.5 client as a ThinApp package. This is purely for testing and experimental purposes and should not be utilized within a production environment and is not supported by VMware ESX or ThinApp Support Teams.

Requirements
The following items and knowledge are required for use of this procedure:

Familiarization with instructions on how to virtualize a software product via ThinApp (see, "How to Make a ThinApp Application" on http://blogs.vmware.com/thinapp).

NOTE!
These instructions are ONLY for the Virtual Infrastructure 2.5 Client and will not work on the 2.0.x client!!

Installing the VI Client will require Microsoft .NET Framework (version dependent)! If the appropriate version of Microsoft .NET Framework is not installed, then the VI Client installation will install it. This means you need to determine if you wish to package the VI Client with Microsoft .NET Framework (version dependent) or without the

Depending upon your version of the VI Client, different versions of the Microsoft .NET Framework are utilized. You may wish to utilize the ThinApp AppLink features and, subsequently, pre-install the Microsoft .NET Framework appropriate to your VI Client prior to capturing the installation of the VI Client in order to keep the size of the package down.

Warning!
Building a ThinApp package in no way modifies the licensing of the software product you are attempting to virtualize with ThinApp! Ensure you are compliance with product licenses for ANY software package you wish to virtualize and deploy using ThinApp. Consult your software product's End User License Agreement (EULA) for reference and questions.

Unsupported!!
This procedure is experimental and not officially supported by VMware with regards to the ESX and ThinApp products! Information in this document is provided "as is" and without warranties or guarantees. It is highly recommended that testing of this procedure be done within a "non-production" test environment.