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Meet requirements for your environment as well as source and destination machines. See/wiki/spaces/VDOC/pages/310706978.
Double-click the Administrative Console shortcut icon on your desktop to start Administrative Console.
Create a virtual container and connect it to the source machine.
Pre-populate the virtual container with applications, services, accounts, components, and files selected from the source machine.
Run your virtualized application on the destination machine and exercise the application. See https://virtamove.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/VDOC/pages/311394496/Running+and+Exercising+Your+Application?search_id=0212d2d3-d1a7-4464-8474-70c3f0e6367f.
Run VirtaMove Dissolve if you want to remove the migration container from the application and transfer the application to the underlying operating system on the destination machine so that the application will behave as if natively installed. Note that this process cannot be reversed. See Dissolving an Applicationa Virtual Container. You may wish to keep the application running in the migration container, as required.
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Pre-populate occurs when you click the Pre-Populate button in the VirtaMove Administrative Console under the Tether tab. A window displays the status of the Pre-Populate process.
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