Vmware, Inc.

Barak Yagour

Tal Zamir

Leonid Vasetsky

Israel Zvi Ben-Shaul

Shahar Glixman

Ady Degany

Eytan Heidingsfeld

Yehuda Itzhakov

Techniques are provided for desktop streaming over wide area networks. In one embodiment, a computer comprises logic stored in one or more storage media. The logic is configured to receive a first request for a desktop image comprising a collection of files, and to segment the desktop image into a prefetch set, a streaming set, and a leave-behind set. The prefetch set includes a smallest subset of files, in the collection of files, that is needed for a boot up without requiring retrieval of additional files. The streaming set includes those files, in the collection of files, that are to be sent after the boot up. The leave-behind set includes those files, in the collection of files, that are to be sent when specifically requested. In response to the first request, the logic is configured to send the prefetch set to a computing device. After the prefetch set has been sent, the logic is configured to receive a second request for the streaming set and to send the streaming set to the computing device in response to the second request.

Streaming a desktop image over wide area networks in which the desktop image is segmented into a prefetch set of files, streaming set of files and leave-behind set of files

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