Interaction between SWV and Wise Installation Studio
Hi,
I've observed some weird behaviour when installing SWV and Wise Installation Studio on the same machine.
What I want to do is create a setup.exe that contains the Workspace Virtualization Agent in runtime mode. For this I need to use Virtual Package Editor, which is part of Wise Installation Studio. To test this, I wrote a console program that reads the DWORD registry value HKLM\SOFTWARE\virt_test1\mykey. I did the following tests on two Windows XP SP3 virtual machines, one English and one German.
Test 1
- install Wise Installation Studio
- create setup.exe
-> works
Test 2
- install Wise Installation Studio
- install SWV
- create setup.exe
-> does not work; the program can't read the registry value (RegOpenKeyEx() fails)
Test 3
- install SWV
- install Wise Installation Studio
- create setup.exe
-> does not work; the program can't read the registry value (RegOpenKeyEx() fails)
Is this a known problem? Can anyone reproduce the behaviour? I can upload the files I used for the test if needed.
Wise is not compatible with
Wise is not compatible with SWV 6.1 SP1 at the moment because we've changes where everything in the registry is saved for a layer and Wise is still looking in the old location.
It should still work with SWV 6.1.
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What about Wise Package Studio 8?
Hi Jordan,
WPS8 has just shipped. Was this updated to work with SWV 6.1 SP1 before release?
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From what I understand no.
From what I understand no. The Wise team is no longer maintaining their virtual packager as that has fallen to the SEV business unit.
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Though I may be wrong so
Though I may be wrong so someone might want to check with the wise people.
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Update
WPS 8 did not include any compatibility update for SWV 6.1 SP1
It will be added for a future update of WPS 8
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@Jordan
Along with WPS's seemingly sub-glacial development cycle, the utter disdain for the customer displayed here confirms why I am increasingly recommending to my clients that they switch to InstallShield for packaging.
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