Review: Evalaze Application Virtualization

Finally I have some time to look at the Evalaze application virtualization technology. I discovered this product when evaluating Cameyo (see previous post).

Installation

There is no installation required. Simply download a archive containing a few files. In combination with the Microsoft .NET Framework 2 the GUI runs without additional actions.

Capture

The capture process is just as simple. A wizard in the Evalazer application will guide you through the following steps:

1. Name the application
2. Pre-scan the environment
3. The usual installation of the application to be captured
4. Post-scan the environment
5. Choose the application executable
6. Splash screen settings such as “This application was virtualized by me.”
7. Build

That’s all. Customizing splash screen is different from other packaging products. The splash result though is not art, but in your face red. The resulting .exe does work fine. Even on Windows 7 x64 the .exe runs without any problems.

Samples

The website itself provides a lot of pre-packaged open source/ free applications for download. These samples consist of the resulting .exe and project file, in case you want to modify the package. If you are curious about the splash, just download and start one of the samples.

Conclusion

Evalaze Application Virtualization is young application virtualization technology that has room for improvement. The capture process is straight forward and the end result of standard Windows applications is fine. More complex applications demand tweaking to get them to work, but that is what application packagers live for . Personally I like Cameyo more.

Try it yourself and download the Evalazer.

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