Patent ID: 9367244
Filing Date: 2016-06-14
CPC Classification: G06F

Claim Text:
1. A method for composing a virtual disk for a virtual machine, the virtual disk comprising a base virtual disk image, a user delta disk image, and one or more application delta disk images, the method comprising: identifying an application delta disk image in an application store, the application delta disk image having an application stored therein, wherein the identifying of the application delta disk image comprises analyzing metadata that has been stored in the user delta disk image; copying the identified application delta disk image to a location that is accessible to a virtual desktop of the virtual machine; modifying a logical size of the copied application delta disk image to conform with a logical size of the base virtual disk image of the virtual machine; linking the base virtual disk image, the application delta disk image, and the user delta disk image; and modifying the user delta disk image so that read requests from the virtual desktop directed to the virtual disk are satisfied with data from the application delta disk image.