Vista virtualization not working ?

[Vilius Mockûnas]

Hello,

I wanted to test windows vista virtualization. Running vista business 32bit.
So I launched cmd process under administrative user running in admin
approval mode (UAC on). Entered following commands:
cd c:\windows
echo some data>settings1.ini
And got:
access denied.
Checked C:\Users\Username\AppData\Local\VirtualStore - and no files were
there.

So my process was not virtualized.
Why ?
In what circumstances processes are virtualized ?
How do I see virtualization in action - I need to understand that because
installer of my business application is virtualized.


thanks
Vilius

 

[GTS]

This might help.
See http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa372825(VS.85).aspx
particularly section 1.5

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb530198.aspx might also be of
interest.

 

[PA Bear [MS MVP]]

[Crosspost much?]

 

[Vilius Mockunas]

I want to ask simpler question:

What processes are virtualized by default ?
Looks like cmd.exe process is not virtualized.

V

 

[GTS]

Windows Installer. If there are any others I'm not aware of them.
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