Running Application Virtualization 4.5 on Windows 2008 Server

I’m running Application Virtualization 4.5 (SoftGrid) on a Windows 2008 RTM Virtual Machine. First off i’m pretty impressed with the performance of Windows 2008 running as a guest in Virtual PC 2007. It is “even” running on a Windows Vista SP1 Host. I really had the idea this was going to be slow, but it proved me wrong. Way to go Microsoft. Also Application Virtualization 4.5 is running quite smoothly.

So the virtual box is set up to be a Domain Controller, Web Server (IIS7), SQL 2005 Express is running on it and Application Virtualization 4.5. The only thing I ran into during installation of AppVirt was an error concerning IIS, “Error 25120. The installation program was unable to create the required IIS Virtual Directory”. This has to do with the fact that AppVirt was actually written to run on IIS6.

I found the solution on the Microsoft Technet Application Virtualization forum. Before installing AppVirt, add the following components through Server Manager to the Web Server Role in addition to the IIS7 default components.

  • IIS Management Scripts and Tools
  • IIS 6 Metabase Compatibility
  • IIS 6 Management Console

IIS Components screenshot

After this you are ready to install Application Virtualization 4.5!

February 17th 2008 Posted to App-V News by Rodney