In-memory virtual desktop system

An in-memory virtual desktop system, comprising:

• hardware including main memory that stores a plurality of virtual desktop images;
• and
• a hypervisor for virtualizing resources of the hardware and providing virtualized resources to a virtual desktop,
• wherein the hypervisor comprises an in-memory disk virtualization engine for generating a virtual disk based on the main memory and providing the virtual disk to a respective virtual desktop,
• wherein the in-memory disk virtualization engine comprises a block deduplication module unit for performing deduplication on blocks present in a virtual disk generated based on the main memory,
• wherein the main memory is partitioned to include a hypervisor operation memory area, a virtual main memory area, and a virtual disk area,
• wherein the virtual disk area stores the virtual desktop images,
• wherein the in-memory disk virtualization engine includes an image pool to manage the plurality of virtual desktops, the image pool comprising virtual memory blocks for each of the plurality of virtual desktops, the virtual memory blocks each having a unique block ID, and
• wherein the in-memory disk virtualization engine, based on receiving a command from one of the plurality of virtual desktops, generates a first command comprising the image pool block, and generates a deduplicated command to transmit to the main memory by mapping virtual memory blocks of the image pool having the same content to a same block of the deduplicated command.