Dynamic provisioning and delivery of virtual applications

A non-transitory computer readable medium comprising instructions to be executed in a processor of a computer system, the instructions when executed in the processor cause the computer system to carry out a method of mounting a first virtual disk to a first virtual machine (VM), the method comprising:

• obtaining a set of required applications of the first VM and a set of required applications of a second VM;
• obtaining constraints of the first VM and constraints of the second VM;
• determining an application overlap between the set of required applications of the first VM and the set of required applications of the second VM, wherein the overlap complies with the constraints of the first VM and the constraints of the second VM;
• placing applications of the application overlap into a first virtual disk file;
• and
• mounting the first virtual disk to the first VM.

A computer system comprising:

• a first virtual computing instance (VCI) and a second VCI;
• a first virtual disk and a first virtual disk file;
• and
• a processor, wherein the processor is programmed to carry out a method of mounting the first virtual disk to the first VCI, the method comprising:
• obtaining a set of required applications of the first VCI and a set of required applications of the second VCI;
• obtaining constraints of the first VCI and constraints of the second VCI;
• determining an application overlap between the set of required applications of the first VCI and the set of required applications of the second VCI, wherein the overlap complies with the constraints of the first VCI and the constraints of the second VCI;
• placing applications of the application overlap into the first virtual disk file;
• and
• mounting the first virtual disk to the first VCI.