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SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR GENERATING A VIRTUAL DESKTOP

  • US 20120304168A1
  • Filed: 05/24/2011
  • Published: 11/29/2012
  • Est. Priority Date: 05/24/2011
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method for generating a desktop image for a client computing device, the method comprising:

  • receiving a selection of one or more applications to include in the desktop image;

    determining references to application containers associated with each of the one or more applications, wherein the application containers are stored in a storage system accessible by a hypervisor running a virtual machine accessing the desktop image;

    modifying metadata in a file system associated with the disk image to indicate that application data associated with the one or more applications is stored in a number of data blocks of the file system, but not copying the application data into the number of data blocks of the file system;

    generating a mapping between the number of data blocks of the file system and the references to the application containers; and

    enabling access to the mapping by the hypervisor when running the virtual machine.

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