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Chapter 20 Deploying ACE Packages
4Inthesummaryview,clickthePreviewinPlayerintheCommandslist.
Apackagebasedonalinkedcloneiscreatedinanewdirectory,Preview
Deployment,insidetheACE‐enabledvirtualmachine’sdirectory.Thelinkedclone
iscreatedfromasnapshotofthevirtualmachine’scurrentstate.Unlikeapackage
thatisde
ploye
dtoanACEuser’smachine,thispackageisnotinstalled.
VMwarePlay erallowsyoutoactivateandauthenticatetheACE instance(ifthose
policiesareset).Ifconfigured,instancecustomizationisalsoperformed.Theguest
operatingsystemstarts.
5TestthepolicychangeintherunningACEinstancetoens
urethatitistheoneyou
wanttomake.
PreviewmodeenablesVMwarePlayertoruninteractivelysothatyoucanseeany
instancecustomizationerrorsandmakecorrectionsasneeded.
6 (Optional)Tomakeadditionalchangestopoliciesordeploymentsettings,shut
downthevirtualmachineandrepeatthisprocedure.
Yo
ucanhaveonlyonepreviewinstanceperACE‐enabledvirtualmachine.When
youclickPreviewinPlayerasecondorsubsequenttime,amessageasksifyou
wanttoreplacethecurrentpreviewinstancewithanewdeploymentorusethe
existingdeployment.
Tochangeonlypoliciesandnotrepeattheactiv
ationandinstancecustomization
steps,usetheexistingdeployment.
7IfACEManagementServerismanagingthevirtualmachine,clickPublish
PoliciestoServer.
Creating a Package
AfteryoucreateanACE‐enabledvirtualmachineandconfigurepolicies,devices,and
deploymentsettings,usetheNewPackagewizardtocreateapackagethatyoucan
deploytousers.
ForpackagesthatyouplantodeploytoWindowshosts,youcanspecifythatthe
packagebedistributedthroughanetworkimageorthroughDVDsorCDs.ForDVD
andCDdis
tribution,thepackageisdividedintofilesthatfitonstandarddiscs.
N
OTETocreateaPocketACEpackagefordistributiononportabledevices,usethe
PocketACEPackagewizardratherthanthe NewPackagewizard.See“CreateaPocket
ACEPackage”onpage 460.
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