SHARING WORK ENVIRONMENT INFORMATION SOURCES WITH PERSONAL ENVIRONMENT APPLICATIONS

摘要

One or more embodiments of the invention enable an application running in a personal environment of a mobile device to access an information source registered with a guest operating system (OS) of a work environment. The personal environment is a host OS of the mobile device and the work environment is running in a virtual machine supported by a hypervisor running within the personal environment. A hypervisor-aware service in the virtual machine provides registration information for the information source to the hypervisor. The hypervisor updates the registration information to include a reference to the hypervisor and transmits the updated registration information to the host OS which registers the information source. Upon a request by the application for information from the information source, the hypervisor-aware service receives a request from the hypervisor to access the information source and provides access to the information source for the application through the hypervisor.