Multi-user managed desktop environment

摘要

A method and system of operating an actual or virtual desktop or server and managing such desktops and servers involves one or more cache appliances serving desktop, operating system, and application objects to a managed machine. The objects are composited together to present a normal file structure to the user, with all user configuration and data stored in the desktop object. Management requirements are minimized to maintain operating system and application objects, while users maintain distinct and customizable desktops.

主权项

1. A multi-user computing environment, comprising:
one or more computers for operating Managed Desktops, wherein managed desktops are a virtual desktops running on a computer using composite virtualization; one or more Cache Appliances providing access for said one or more computers to a set of Binary Packages; and compositing software capable of operating on each of said one or more computers and capable of accessing said set of Binary Packages and presenting, without installing, said set of Binary Packages for operational access as a Managed Desktop wherein all file access requests of the operating Managed Desktop are intercepted by the compositing software; wherein each Binary Package comprises a set of files and a metadata listing of said files, said metadata including identifiers of files required for operating system execution on a Managed Desktop prior to operation of compositing software to access the Binary Package.