I managed to take a deeper look at the
Ceedo product which I previously posted on. They have a pretty
decent story about wrapping up the application -the whole
“Application” or “OS” virtualization thing. From what I can
tell it simply monitors all calls to the registry and the the local
file system (My Documents, etc.) and re-routes them to the
virtualized versions of each. This is one of the bigger pain points
of running any application from a portable device; its nice to see
them try to solve that. Note that you can still find hundreds of
applications which do not rely on either the registry or well known
windows paths.
Other than their virtualization
technology I dont really see much value to their offering. They have
a fancy menu which hides in the system tray if you tell it too, but
you can get that for free.
It would be nice to see them produce
their virtualization product as a standalone wrapper around other
applications. Reg Rapper somewhat solves the whole wrapper around the registry, which does a ½
decent job at it; and its free but I dont see it handling file system
calls – not that this is all that important either way.
Mirror