APPLICATION SOFTWARE INSTALLATION METHOD AND APPLICATION SOFTWARE INSTALLATION APPARATUS

• US 20130132942A1
• Filed: 12/12/2012
• Published: 05/23/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 11/22/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. (Huawei Investment & Holding Co., Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. (Huawei Investment & Holding Co., Ltd.)
• Inventors: Wang, Qifei
• Granted Patent: US 8,924,954 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 717/176
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 8/61 Installation
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/45504 Abstract machines for programme code execution, e.g. Java virtual machine [JVM], interpreters, emulators

Abstract

An application software installation method and an application software installation apparatus are used to solve problems of operation complexity and high implementation difficulty in an existing installation process of application software. The method includes: mounting mirror data of a virtual machine, and mapping the mirror data as one virtual disk in a local file system; updating a registry file in a virtual disk according to registry change record data in an application software package; and updating a file structure in the virtual disk according to the file change record data and the file in the application software package, thereby implementing installation of the application software in the virtual machine. In the process of installing the application software, a user of the virtual machine does not need to perform complex operations, thereby reducing software installation difficulty.

Claims

1. A method for installing application software, comprising:

mounting, by a processor, mirror data of a virtual machine where application software is to be installed, and mapping the mirror data as one virtual disk in a local file system;

updating a registry file in the virtual disk according to registry change record data in an application software package of the application software, wherein the application software package comprises a file that is added or modified during an installation process, the registry change record data, and file change record data, and the registry change record data and the file change record data are obtained according to a difference between a host operating system environment before installation of the application software and a host operating system environment after the installation of the application software; and

updating a file structure in the virtual disk according to the file change record data and the file in the application software package, thereby implementing installation of the application software in the virtual machine.

2. The method according to claim 1, wherein mounting the mirror data of the virtual machine comprises:

determining a type of the mirror data of the virtual machine; and

invoking, according to the type of the mirror data, a corresponding mounting program to mount the mirror data of the virtual machine on a storage location of the mirror data of the virtual machine.

3. The method according to claim 2, wherein determining the type of the mirror data of the virtual machine comprises:

according to the storage location of the mirror data of the virtual machine, testing whether a data head of the mirror data can be successfully read;

if the data head of the mirror data can be successfully read, determining a data format type of the mirror data according to a data format type field in the data head; and

if the data head of the mirror data cannot be successfully read, testing whether the mirror data can be successfully parsed according to an RAW format, and if the mirror data can be successfully parsed, determining that the data format type of the mirror data is the RAW format.

4. The method according to claim 2, wherein determining the type of the mirror data of the virtual machine comprises:

sending, to an elastic computing controller, a type confirmation request message carrying a virtual machine identifier or the storage location of the mirror data of the virtual machine;

receiving a type confirmation response message returned by the elastic computing controller; and

extracting a carried type of the mirror data from in the type confirmation response message, wherein the type of the mirror data is found by the elastic computing controller according to the virtual machine identifier in the type confirmation request message from correspondence which is between the virtual machine identifier and the type of the mirror data and is saved when a virtual machine mirror file is created;

or is found by the elastic computing controller according to the storage location in the type confirmation request message from correspondence which is between the storage location of the mirror data of the virtual machine and the type of the mirror data and is saved when the mirror data of the virtual machine is created.

5. The method according to claim 1, wherein after updating the registry file in the virtual disk, and the updating the file structure in the virtual disk, the method further comprises:

canceling mounting the mirror data of the virtual machine.

6. The method according to claim 2, wherein after updating the registry file in the virtual disk, and the updating the file structure in the virtual disk, the method further comprises:

canceling mounting the mirror data of the virtual machine.

7. The method according to claim 1, wherein the application software package is created by:

acquiring the difference between the host operating system environment before installation of application software and the host operating system environment after the installation of the application software;

determining registry change record data and file change record data according to the difference; and

generating an application software package which comprises the registry change record data, the file change record data and the file which is added or modified in the host during a program installation process.

8. The method according to claim 7, wherein acquiring the difference between the host operating system environment before the installation of the application software and the host operating system environment after the installation of the application software comprises:

replicating an installation package of the application software to the host operating system environment, wherein the installation package is provided by an application software provider, and the installation package comprises an installation program in an executable program format;

before and after running of the installation program, establishing snapshots for the host operating system environment separately; and

comparing the snapshots of the host operating system environment before and after the running of the installation program, and obtaining the difference between the host operating system environment before the installation of the application software and the host operating system environment after the installation of the application software.

9. The method according to claim 7, wherein acquiring the difference between the host operating system environment before the installation of the application software and the host operating system environment after the installation of the application software comprises:

selecting a first host and a second host with exactly same operating system environments in advance;

replicating an installation package, provided by a provider of the to-be-installed application software, to an operating system environment of the second host, and running an installation program in the installation package in the second host; and

performing comparison to find a difference between the operating system environments of the first host and the second host after the installation program in the installation package is run, so as to obtain the difference between the host operating system environment before the installation of the application software and the host operating system environment after the installation of the application software.

10. The method according to claim 7, wherein acquiring the difference between the host operating system environment before the installation of the application software and the host operating system environment after the installation of the application software comprises:

decompiling an installation program in an installation package provided by an application software provider, obtaining, from a decompiling result, an operator performed on the operating system environment, and from the obtained operator, determining an expected difference between the host operating system environment before the installation of the application software and the host operating system environment after the installation of the application software.

11. The method according to claim 7, wherein generating the application software package which comprises the registry change record data, the file change record data and the file which is added or modified in the host during the program installation process comprises:

writing the registry change record data and the file change record data in a change record file; and

performing packaging processing on the change record file and the file which is added or modified in the host during the installation program process, and generating the application software package of the application software.

12. The method according to claim 8, wherein generating the application software package which comprises the registry change record data, the file change record data and the file which is added or modified in the host during the program installation process comprises:

writing the registry change record data and the file change record data in a change record file; and

performing packaging processing on the change record file and the file which is added or modified in the host during the installation program process, and generating the application software package of the application software.

13. The method according to claim 9, wherein generating the application software package which comprises the registry change record data, the file change record data and the file which is added or modified in the host during the program installation process comprises:

writing the registry change record data and the file change record data in a change record file; and

performing packaging processing on the change record file and the file which is added or modified in the host during the installation program process, and generating the application software package of the application software.

14. An application software installation apparatus, comprising:

a mounting module, configured to mount mirror data of a virtual machine where application software is to be installed, and map the mirror data as one virtual disk in a local file system;

a first update module, configured to update a registry file in the virtual disk according to registry change record data in an application software package of the application software, wherein the application software package comprises a file which is added or modified during an installation process, the registry change record data, and file change record data, and the registry change record data and the file change record data are obtained according to a difference between a host operating system environment before installation of the application software and a host operating system environment after the installation of the application software; and

a second update module, configured to update a file structure in the virtual disk according to the file change record data and the file in the application software package, thereby implementing installation of the application software in the virtual machine.

15. The apparatus according to claim 14, wherein the mounting module comprises:

a determining unit, configured to determine a type of the mirror data of the virtual machine; and

a mounting unit, configured to invoke, according to the type of the mirror data determined by the determining unit, a corresponding mounting program to mount the mirror data of the virtual machine on a storage location of the mirror data of the virtual machine.

16. The apparatus according to claim 15, wherein the determining unit comprises:

a first test sub-unit, configured to test, according to the storage location of the mirror data of the virtual machine, whether a data head of the mirror data can be successfully read;

a first determining sub-unit, configured to determine a data format type of the mirror data according to a data format type field in the data head if the first test sub-unit can successfully read the data head of the mirror data;

a second test sub-unit, configured to test whether the mirror data can be successfully parsed according to an RAW format if the first test sub-unit cannot successfully read the data head of the mirror data; and

a second determining sub-unit, configured to, if the second test sub-unit can successfully parse the mirror data, determine that the data format type of the mirror data is the RAW format.

17. The apparatus according to claim 15, wherein the determining unit comprises:

a sending sub-unit, configured to send, to an elastic computing controller, a type confirmation request message carrying a virtual machine identifier or the storage location of the mirror data of the virtual machine;

a receiving sub-unit, configured to receive a type confirmation response message returned by the elastic computing controller; and

a third determining sub-unit, configured to extract a carried type of the mirror data from the type confirmation response message received by the receiving sub-unit, wherein the type of the mirror data is found by the elastic computing controller according to the virtual machine identifier in the type confirmation request message from correspondence which is between the virtual machine identifier and the type of the mirror data and is saved when a virtual machine mirror file is created;

or is found by the elastic computing controller according to the storage location in the type confirmation request message from correspondence which is between the storage location of the mirror data of the virtual machine and the type of the mirror data and is saved when the mirror data of the virtual machine is created.

18. The apparatus according to claim 14, further comprising an application software package creation module, and the application software package creation module comprise:

an acquisition unit, configured to acquire a difference between a host operating system environment before installation of application software and a host operating system environment after the installation of the application software;

a determining unit, configured to determine registry change record data and file change record data according to the difference obtained by the acquisition unit; and

a creation unit, configured to generate an application software package, wherein the application software package comprises the registry change record data and the file change record data which are determined by the determining unit, and a file which is added or modified in the host during a program installation process.

19. The apparatus according to claim 18, wherein the creation unit comprises:

a write sub-unit, configured to write the registry change record data and the file change record data in a change record file; and

a generating sub-unit, configured to perform packaging processing on the change record file and the file which is added or modified during the installation program process, and generate the application software package of the application software.

20. A server, comprising a processor, wherein

the processor is configured to mount mirror data of a virtual machine where application software is to be installed, and map the mirror data as one virtual disk in a local file system;

update a registry file in the virtual disk according to registry change record data in an application software package of the application software, wherein the application software package comprises a file which is added or modified during an installation process, the registry change record data, and file change record data, and the registry change record data and the file change record data are obtained according to a difference between a host operating system environment before installation of the application software and a host operating system environment after the installation of the application software; and

update a file structure in the virtual disk according to the file change record data and the file in the application software package, thereby implementing installation of the application software in the virtual machine.