Delivering Applications with VMware App Volumes 4: Delivering Application Layers to Virtual Desktops Using VMware

© Peter von Oven 2021

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6. Writable Volumes

Peter von Oven¹  

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Wiltshire, UK

 

In the previous chapter, we created our first App Volumes Application to deliver applications to your end users. The Application consisted of App Volumes Packages as well as the actual Programs that you installed. So that is the delivery of applications taken care of, but what if the end user wants to install their own apps?

The end user cannot do this in the application package, as it is a read-only virtual hard disk. They could just install their app onto their virtual desktop, but if you deploy stateless virtual desktops, then when the end user logs out, the app will ...