Distribution and management of services in virtual environments

Storage hardware storing instructions configured to cause a computing device to perform steps comprising:

• execute a host runtime environment provided by an operating system of the computing device;
• execute a service within a first runtime environment, the first runtime environment either being the host runtime environment or being hosted by the host runtime environment;
• execute a client stub of the service within a second runtime environment, the second runtime environment being a separate, isolated execution environment from the first runtime environment, the second runtime environment being hosted by the host runtime environment;
• establish inter-process communication (IPC) between the client stub executing within the second runtime environment and the service executing within the first runtime environment based on provided communication parameters;
• and
• responsive to a request to access the service from an application executing on the host runtime environment, executing a virtual version of the application within the second runtime environment, the virtual version of the application directing the request to the client stub.

A method of providing, to an application executing on a computing device, isolated access to a computer-executed service process, the method comprising:

• execute a host runtime environment provided by an operating system of the computing device;
• execute the service process within a first runtime environment, the first runtime environment either being the host runtime environment or being hosted by the host runtime environment;
• execute a client stub of the service process within a second runtime environment, the second runtime environment being a separate, isolated execution environment from the first runtime environment, the second runtime environment being hosted by the host runtime environment;
• establish inter-process communication (IPC) between the client stub executing within the second runtime environment and the service process executing within the first runtime environment based on provided communication parameters;
• and
• responsive to a request to access the service from the application executing on the host runtime environment, executing a virtual version of the application within the second runtime environment, the virtual version of the application directing the request to the client stub.