Patent ID: 11886760
Assignee: VMWARE LLC
Field: Computer technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 6:
7. The method of claim 1, further comprising:
in response to determining that the native print driver is installed at the client device and is usable at the host device:
receiving, by the host device from the client device, at least one print driver file corresponding to the native print driver installed at the client device;
installing at the host device by using the at least one print driver file, by the host device, the native print driver;
instantiating at the host device, by the host device, the virtual printer corresponding to the physical printer, and associating the native print driver installed using the at least one print driver file received from the client device with the virtual printer; and
using, by the host device, the native print driver installed using the at least one print driver file received from the client device to generate print data from a print job issued from the virtual desktop so as to enable the print data to be directly passed to the physical printer coupled to the client device for printing.