About Running and Exercising Your Application

Tether copies Windows Start menu items from the source machine to the underlying operating system of the destination machine. The Start menu location of a container on the destination machine is as follows:

You can use the Windows Start menu to find your application on the destination machine. The application name is the same name as the one on the source machine, except that it displays the VirtaMove icon.

When you undock a container, its Start Menu item is removed; when you dock the container again, its Start Menu item is available once again.

Applications are tethered when they are exercised via the Start Menu. Note that the presence of the Start Menu items is not an indication that the applications have been migrated.

Alternatively, you can use a command prompt to run your container application on the destination machine or to run several executables associated with an application.

Note:

When you tether and then launch the application, if the application tries to open a folder and the folder does not exist on the underlying operating system of the destination machine, tether will copy that folder into the container.