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US 2015/0089172 A1Published application
Composing a virtual disk using application delta disk images
AssigneeVMware, Inc.
InventorNeeraj Sanjeev KULKARNI
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AssigneeVMware, Inc.
InventorNeeraj Sanjeev KULKARNI
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According to a system and method, for composing a virtual disk for a virtual desktop, the virtual desktop is booted from a virtual disk comprised of a base disk image and a user delta disk image that receives all disk writes to the virtual disk. Disk space is allocated on the virtual disk for a file associated with a selected application to be provided to a user of the virtual desktop. Then the virtual desktop is recomposed offline by linking the bass disk image, an application delta disk image including the file associated with the selected application, and the user delta disk image. The recomposing includes modifying meta data of the application delta disk and the user delta disk so that the file associated with the selected application is mapped to the disk space previously allocated.
A method for composing a virtual disk for a virtual machine, the virtual disk comprising a base virtual disk image, a user delta disk image, and one or more application delta disk images, the method comprising:
A system for composing a virtual disk for a virtual machine, the virtual disk comprising a base virtual disk image, a user delta disk image, and one or more application delta disk images, and the system including at least one physical processor for executing software instructions that reside in a system memory of the system, where the software instructions implement a method comprising:
A non-transitory computer-readable medium storing computer instructions that, when executed, cause a computer system to implement a method for composing a virtual disk, the method comprising:
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