An Operational Environment for Virtual Desktops with Network Booting

Abstract:

Although the virtual desktop reduces the complex management and maintenance of the traditional desktop environment, it will increase the maintenance complexity of the user operating environment and reduce the efficient utilization of local resources. To address the above issues, a novel diskless virutual desktop framework is proposed in this paper. In this framework, the operating environment is centrally managed, which is network booted from the image server. Then by means of the remote virtual machines, the capability of the runtime is extended by both the local and remote resources. Furthmore, a web-based browser shell is provided where both the local and remote resources are transparently provided to schedule the tasks among them. An experiment is carried out which verifies the feasibility of the framework.

• Periodical: Applied Mechanics and Materials (Volumes 263-266)
• Pages: 3348-3351
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMM.263-266.3348
• Online since: December 2012
• Authors: Fei Luo, Jian Jun Yi, Lin Chen
• Keywords: Browser Shell, Network Booting, Operating Environment, Virtual Desktop

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