Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Provisioning virtual desktops with stub virtual disks
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Application No.: US15398244Application Date: 2017-01-04
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Publication No.: US10579404B2Publication Date: 2020-03-03
- Inventor: Tal Zamir
- Applicant: VMware, Inc.
- Applicant Address: US CA Palo Alto
- Assignee: VMware, Inc.
- Current Assignee: VMware, Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: US CA Palo Alto
- Main IPC: G06F9/46
- IPC: G06F9/46 ; G06F9/455 ; G06F9/451

Abstract:
A system is described allowing a virtual desktop to be booted directly from a desktop image stored in a backup database without requiring content from the desktop image to be copied into the virtual disk of the virtual machine hosting the virtual desktop. The hosting virtual machine contains a synthetic virtual disk acting as a stub disk by redirecting read requests targeted for the synthetic disk from the guest operating system to corresponding locations of the storage where the desktop image is kept.
Public/Granted literature
- US20170116009A1 PROVISIONING VIRTUAL DESKTOPS WITH STUB VIRTUAL DISKS Public/Granted day:2017-04-27
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