Vmware, Inc.

Zhibin He

Yao Zhang

Junfei Wu

Zhikai Chen

Xi Chen

Shengbo Teng

Chang Yan Chi

Yu Xin Kou

Wen Jie Wang

Wenping Fan

Tracy Yan Chi

Yunquan Peng

Stephen Yu

Described herein are systems, methods, and software to handle requests to an application file shared by a plurality of applications on a computing system. In one implementation, a method of handling request for an application file shared by a plurality of applications on a computing system includes identifying a request for the application file on the computing system, wherein each application in the plurality of applications is associated with an individualized version of the application file, and wherein the plurality of applications is stored on separate application storage volumes attached to the computing system. The method further provides identifying an application associated with the request, and identifying an application storage volume in the application storage volumes that stores the application. Once identified, the method also includes retrieving the application file from the identified storage volume to support the request.

Resolving conflicts of application runtime dependencies

A system can allow a user to continue using a virtual machine while a background reboot occurs on a clone of the virtual machine. A backup agent operating on a server can receive a request from a virtual machine operating in an active state, to complete a reboot operation without operational interruption. A hypervisor can clone the virtual machine. During and after cloning, the backup agent can cause a filter agent to capture changes to the virtual machine. The virtual machine clone can notify the backup agent that the reboot is complete. Changes made in the interim on the virtual machine can be integrated on the virtual machine clone. Then the hypervisor can transition usage from the virtual machine to the virtual machine clone.

Preventing interruption during virtual machine reboot

A method of rebooting a computing system in which a virtual machine (VM) runs on top of a hypervisor and a host operating system (OS) includes the following steps. Those steps are sending, from the host OS to the hypervisor, a pre-reboot notification that the host OS is going to reboot, in response to reception of the pre-reboot notification, saving by the hypervisor state of a session that is executing in the VM, rebooting the host OS, after the host OS is rebooted, logging on to the host OS using a credential provider that was previously registered with the host OS and sending a post-reboot notification from the host OS to the hypervisor, and in response to reception of the post-reboot notification, instantiating by the hypervisor a VM in which the session is resumed using the saved state of the session.

Saving data for virtual machine (VM) sessions upon update of host operating system

In one embodiment, a mobile computing device receives content in a desktop compatible format. The content is generated by a remote desktop executing an application. The mobile computing device determines a conversion of at least a first portion of the content to a native display format of the mobile computing device and displays the conversion of the at least the first portion of the content in the native display format on an interface. Also, the mobile computing device displays at least a second portion of the content in the desktop compatible format on the interface where the at least the second portion of the content in the desktop compatible format corresponds to the conversion of the at least the first portion of the content in the native display format of the mobile computing device.

Feedback layer for native content display in virtual desktop infrastructure

Techniques disclosed herein provide access to a markup document form. A user interface virtualization (UIV) agent identifies name fields and input fields in rows of the markup document form. The UIV agent maps each of the name fields to a respective one of the input fields to identify name-input pairs. The UIV agent generates user interface (UI) metadata having row metadata specifying the rows of the markup document and name-input pair metadata specifying the name-input pairs. The UIV agent sends the UI metadata to a mobile client device configured to render a form having UI elements native to the mobile client device based on the UI metadata.

Transforming HTML forms into mobile native forms

Techniques disclosed herein transform HTML forms into forms with graphical user interfaces (UIs) native to mobile devices. A user interface virtualization (UIV) agent divides an HTML form into rows based on row breaks. The UIV agent then identifies name-input pairs in the HTML form by applying a trained na&#xef;ve Bayes classifier to determine name fields, and mapping the name fields to corresponding input fields. In addition, the UIV agent generates metadata which includes both information describing the rows in the form and the name-input information. Based on the metadata, a native form renderer running in the client device draws the form with native UI elements. In addition, the native form renderer forwards native UI events as HTML events.

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Zhibin He