Hi Mike,
Just FYI, I tried the VMWare Thinapp approach and it works so long as you only try and run it on a Windows 7 machine (similar to the one it was created on). If you then try the same app on Win10 it fails. I’ve no doubt that with a bit of time, I could sort this out but I’m flat out on other things atm.
To address the way you are doing it using VMWare Workstation, I use this method for running Catalog Tools (V9) and have tried it with V10 and it works very well. There are a few things to do to make it as smooth as possible.
1) Start with a new Win10 VM config. After installing the OS, debloat it as much as possible or try and pick up a ‘lite’ version of the OS. There are some excellent debloat scripts around: https://github.com/Sycnex/Windows10Debloater. Once you have used the debloater script, go in and uninstall any games and software you don’t want that the script has missed.
2) When defining your VM hardware specifications, use a minimum of 4GB of RAM and 50GB of disk space as well as at least 2 processors. You can change this afterwards depending on the system you will run it on.
3) Install V11 as normal. Once installed, remove any unnecessary catalogues to keep the footprint small.
4) When you run the VM up after installing V11, make sure that you pass the USB security key (if used) to the VMWare session – Got to Player, Removable Devices, click on the Rainbow key (or whatever it shows up as) and click Connect.
And that’s pretty much it!
You may want to consider trying to find ‘portable’ versions of VMWare Workstation to VirtualBox so that you can have EVERYTHING on the SSD and not have to install the VMWare Workstation on a machine prior to using V11.
Feel free to email me at mikel@kitchencraftsmen.com.au if you have any questions.
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