Virtual desktop implementation method, apparatus, and system

• US 9,246,992 B2
• Filed: 09/03/2014
• Issued: 01/26/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 04/05/2012
• 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, Peng
• Primary Examiner(s): DONAGHUE, LARRY D
• Application Number:
  US14/476,113
• Publication Number:
  US 20140372503A1
• Time in Patent Office: 510 Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/1734 Details of monitoring file system events, e.g. by the use of hooks, filter drivers, logs
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/53 by executing in a restricted environment, e.g. sandbox or secure virtual machine
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0611 in relation to response time
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0667 at data level, e.g. file, record or object virtualisation
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/067 Distributed or networked storage systems, e.g. storage area networks [SAN], network attached storage [NAS]
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/45533 Hypervisors; Virtual machine monitors
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/06 specially adapted for file transfer, e.g. file transfer protocol [FTP]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/10 in which an application is distributed across nodes in the network software deployment G06F8/60; multiprogramming arrangements G06F9/46

Abstract

A virtual desktop implementation method, apparatus, and system are provided. A monitor program intercepts a file access request of an application program, and obtains file operation information of the file access request, where the file operation information includes a storage location and an operation type of a to-be-accessed file; the monitor program determines a file type of the to-be-accessed file according to the storage location of the to-be-accessed file, where the file type includes a system file and a program file; sends the file access request to a to-be-accessed file in a local virtual operating system folder when the file type is a system file; and sends the file access request to a to-be-accessed file in a program folder in a local or remote device when the file type is a program file. Accordingly running speeds of a virtual desktop and an application on the virtual desktop are improved.

Claims

1. A virtual desktop implementation method, comprising:

intercepting, by a monitor program, a file access request of an application program after the application program in a local host is started through a predetermined user desktop program;

obtaining file operation information of the file access request, wherein the file operation information comprises a storage location and an operation type of a to-be-accessed file, and wherein the operation type comprises read and write;

determining, by the monitor program and according to the storage location of the to-be-accessed file, a file type of the to-be-accessed file, wherein the file type comprises a system file of an operating system and a program file of the application program; and

processing, by the monitor program, the file access request according to the file type so as to implement a virtual desktop, which comprises;

sending the file access request to a to-be-accessed file in a local virtual operating system folder when the file type is a system file, wherein a file structure in the virtual operating system folder is the same as a file structure in a host operating system folder, and wherein storage locations of the virtual operating system folder and the host operating system folder are different; and

sending the file access request to a to-be-accessed file in a program folder in a local or remote device when the file type is a program file.

2. The virtual desktop implementation method according to claim 1, wherein sending the file access request to a to-be-accessed file in the local virtual operating system folder comprises:

detecting whether a to-be-accessed file exists in the local virtual operating system folder when the file type is the system file;

sending the file access request to the virtual operating system folder and accessing the to-be-accessed file in the virtual operating system folder when the to-be-accessed file exists in the local virtual operating system folder;

duplicating a to-be-accessed file in a local host operating system folder into the virtual operating system folder when the to-be-accessed file does not exist in the local virtual operating system folder and the operation type of the file access request is write; and

executing, according to the file access request, a write operation on the to-be-accessed file in the virtual operating system folder.

3. The virtual desktop implementation method according to claim 2, wherein executable files used to implement the monitor program, the application program, the predetermined user desktop program, and the virtual operating system folder are stored in a mobile storage device connected to the local host.

4. The virtual desktop implementation method according to claim 2, wherein the to-be-accessed file does not exist in the virtual operating system folder and the operation type is read, and wherein the method further comprises:

sending the file access request to the local host operating system folder; and

executing, according to the file access request, a read operation on the to-be-accessed file in the local host operating system folder.

5. The virtual desktop implementation method according to claim 4, wherein executable files used to implement the monitor program, the application program, and the predetermined user desktop program, and the virtual operating system folder are stored in a mobile storage device connected to the local host.

6. The virtual desktop implementation method according to claim 2, wherein the to-be-accessed file does not exist in the virtual operating system folder and the operation type is read, and wherein the method further comprises:

duplicating the to-be-accessed file in the local host operating system folder into the virtual operating system folder; and

executing, according to the file access request, a read operation on the to-be-accessed file in the virtual operating system folder.

7. The virtual desktop implementation method according to claim 1, wherein the file type further comprises a running file of the application program, and wherein the processing, by the monitor program, the file access request according to the file type further comprises sending the file access request to a to-be-accessed file in a running folder in the remote device when the file type is a running file.

8. The virtual desktop implementation method according to claim 7, wherein executable files used to implement the monitor program, the application program, and the predetermined user desktop program, and the virtual operating system folder are stored in a mobile storage device connected to the local host.

9. The virtual desktop implementation method according to claim 7, wherein sending the file access request to the to-be-accessed file in the running folder in the remote device comprises:

locally caching the to-be-accessed file in the running folder in the remote device when the file type is the running file;

sending the file access request to the locally cached to-be-accessed file;

processing the file access request using a local computing resource; and

updating, according to the locally cached to-be-accessed file that has been processed, the to-be-accessed file in the running folder of the remote device.

10. The virtual desktop implementation method according to claim 9, wherein executable files used to implement the monitor program, the application program, and the predetermined user desktop program, and the virtual operating system folder are stored in a mobile storage device connected to the local host.

11. The virtual desktop implementation method according to claim 1, wherein executable files used to implement the monitor program, the application program, the predetermined user desktop program, and the virtual operating system folder are stored in a mobile storage device connected to the local host.

12. A virtual desktop implementation apparatus, comprising:

a processor; and

a memory coupled to the processor, wherein the processor is configured to;

intercept a file access request of an application program after the application program is started through a predetermined user desktop program;

obtain file operation information of the file access request intercepted by the monitoring and intercepting module, wherein the file operation information comprises a storage location and an operation type of a to-be-accessed file, and wherein the operation type comprises read and write; and

determine, according to the storage location of the to-be-accessed file, a file type of the to-be-accessed file, wherein the file type comprises a system file of an operating system and a program file of the application program;

process the file access request according to the file type, so as to implement a virtual desktop;

send the file access request to a to-be-accessed file in a local virtual operating system folder when the file type is a system file, wherein a file structure in the virtual operating system folder is the same as a file structure in a host operating system folder, and wherein storage locations of the virtual operating system folder and the host operating system folder are different; and

send the file access request to a to-be-accessed file in a program folder in a local or remote device when the file type is a program file.

13. The virtual desktop implementation apparatus according to claim 12, wherein the file type further comprises a running file of the application program, and wherein the processor is further configured to send the file access request to a to-be-accessed file in a running folder in the remote device when the file type is a running file.

14. The virtual desktop implementation apparatus according to claim 13, wherein the processor is further configured to:

locally cache the to-be-accessed file in the running folder in the remote device when the file type is the running file;

send the file access request to the locally cached to-be-accessed file;

process the file access request using a local computing resource; and

update, according to the locally cached to-be-accessed file that has been processed, the to-be-accessed file in the running folder of the remote device.

15. The virtual desktop implementation apparatus according to claim 12, wherein the processor is further configured to:

detect whether a to-be-accessed file exists in the local virtual operating system folder when the file type is the system file;

send the file access request to the virtual operating system folder;

access the to-be-accessed file in the virtual operating system folder when the to-be-accessed file exists in the local virtual operating system folder and the file type is the system file;

duplicate a to-be-accessed file in a local host operating system folder into the virtual operating system folder when the to-be-accessed file does not exist in the local virtual operating system folder, the file type is the system file, and the operation type of the file access request is write;

execute, according to the file access request, a write operation on the to-be-accessed file in the virtual operating system folder;

send the file access request to the local host operating system folder when the to-be-accessed file does not exist in the local virtual operating system folder and when the operation type is read; and

execute, according to the file access request, a read operation on the to-be-accessed file in the local host operating system folder.

16. The virtual desktop implementation apparatus according to claim 12, wherein the processor is further configured to:

detect whether a to-be-accessed file exists in the local virtual operating system folder when the file type is the system file;

send the file access request to the virtual operating system folder;

access the to-be-accessed file in the virtual operating system folder when the to-be-accessed file exists in the local virtual operating system folder and the file type is the system file;

duplicate a to-be-accessed file in a local host operating system folder into the virtual operating system folder when the to-be-accessed file does not exist in the local virtual operating system folder, the file type is the system file, and the operation type of the file access request is write;

execute, according to the file access request, a write operation on the to-be-accessed file in the virtual operating system folder;

duplicate the to-be-accessed file in the local host operating system folder into the virtual operating system folder when the to-be-accessed file does not exist in the local virtual operating system folder and when the operation type is read; and

execute, according to the file access request, a read operation on the to-be-accessed file in the virtual operating system folder.

17. The virtual desktop implementation apparatus according to claim 15, wherein the processor is further configured to:

send the file access request to the local host operating system folder when no to-be-accessed file exists in the virtual operating system folder and the operation type is read; and

execute, according to the file access request, a read operation on the to-be-accessed file in the local host operating system folder.

18. The virtual desktop implementation apparatus according to claim 15, Wherein the processor is further configured to:

duplicate the to-be-accessed file in the local host operating system folder into the virtual operating system folder when no to-be-accessed file exists in the virtual operating system folder and the operation type is read; and

execute, according to the file access request, a read operation on the to-be-accessed file in the virtual operating system folder.

19. A virtual desktop implementation system comprising a host and a remote device, wherein a virtual operating system folder and a virtual desktop implementation apparatus are integrated into the host, and wherein the virtual desktop implementation apparatus is configured to:

intercept a file access request of an application program after the application program is started through a predetermined user desktop program;

obtain file operation information of the file access request intercepted by the monitoring and intercepting module, wherein the file operation information comprises a storage location and an operation type of a to-be-accessed file, and wherein the operation type comprises read and write;

determine, according to the storage location of the to-be-accessed file, a file type of the to-be-accessed file, wherein the file type comprises a system file of an operating system and a program file of the application program; and

process the file access request according to the file type, so as to implement a virtual desktop, which comprises;

sending the file access request to a to-be-accessed file in a local virtual operating system folder when the file type is a system file, wherein a file structure in the virtual operating system folder is the same as a file structure in a host operating system folder, and wherein storage locations of the virtual operating system folder and the host operating system folder are different; and

sending the file access request to a to-be-accessed file in a program folder in the host or in the remote device when the file type is a program file.