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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 06, 2023
Filed:
Dec. 09, 2020
Vmware, Inc., Palo Alto, CA (US);
Yaron Halperin, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Jad Chamcham, Mountain View, CA (US);
Christian Matthew Leroy, San Francisco, CA (US);
Gerald Cheong, East Palo Alto, CA (US);
Matthew Eccleston, San Francisco, CA (US);
Ji Feng, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
VMware, Inc., Palo Alto, CA (US);
Abstract
A server-based desktop-virtual machines architecture may be extended to a client machine. In one embodiment, a user desktop is remotely accessed from a client system. The remote desktop is generated by a first virtual machine running on a server system, which may comprise one or more server computers. During execution of the first virtual machine, writes to a corresponding virtual disk are directed to a delta disk file or redo log. A copy of the virtual disk is created on the client system. When a user decides to 'check out' his or her desktop, the first virtual machine is terminated (if it is running) and a copy of the delta disk is created on the client system. Once the delta disk is present on the client system, a second virtual machine can be started on the client system using the virtual disk and delta disk to provide local access to the user's desktop at the client system. This allows the user to then access his or her desktop without being connected to a network.