DISKLESS CLIENTS USING A HYPERVISOR

摘要

An arrangement for facilitating remote booting in a diskless client system is described. A hypervisor (140) is first loaded (160) to run under an operating system OS (120). Once loaded, the hypervisor (140) establishes a connection to the central server (170) to load user data, 'hooks disk' access modules and then proceeds along a normal boot path. Each time the OS (120) attempts (175) to access a file on a local hard drive (180), the hypervisor (140) can 'trap' this access, this preventing the communication (185) with the hard drive (180) and reads (190) the requisite data from the server (170). The loading mechanism for the hypervisor utilizes the iSCSI protocol.