Why not recommend full desktop virtualization

Almost all of the virtualization vendors are shouting "Full virtualization!" "Slogan, many users are starting to feel excited, surging unceasingly. "Full virtualization, why not?" ”

Chatting recently with a friend who has worked in the desktop virtualization industry for many years, he talked about the growing number of domestic users who have embraced desktop virtualization, but has also begun to get ahead of the idea that it is not quite in line with the current reality (perhaps some years of technology may indeed happen).

Lenovo to the various customers encountered over the years using the desktop virtualization scene, deep feeling. Desktop virtualization technology is not necessarily suitable for all users and scenarios, and is not just a technical issue.

Personally feel the need to share to the virtual walk on the road friends, so that everyone less detours, not detours.

1. Publish Android/iphone application to mobile phone

A customer has implemented a virtual desktop on a scale to achieve Home Office for its employees across the country (each employee has a thin client home). Overall implementation of the effect is good, but also reached the beginning of the project customer expectations. The recent IT director has thrown a question that since desktop virtualization can be more secure, it is possible to recycle the applications we have developed on iphone/android to the data center and securely distribute them to the mobile phone * (& @!# @!#*)!@#.

After hearing these words, my mind began to faint. There are tens of thousands of ways to enhance security, why is this customer's desktop virtualization?

To know that the current desktop virtualization product guest OS is primarily supported by Windows XP/VISTA/7, there are some starting to support Linux (currently VMware has already provided a beta version of desktop virtualization products to support Linux OS), But almost no one is able to support iphone/android to do the guest OS (the main reason is that these phones are now developed using the ARM chipset, and the virtualization software design was initially designed for the X86 architecture).

After listening to the user's explanation to understand, before the application data cache to these Android/iphone smartphone, there are always some worry ah (also, the domestic more than 80% of the user's mobile phones are cracked/root, the OS inside there is indeed a virus Trojan possibility).

In response to this requirement, I presented my client with the option of running a managed virtual machine on an existing phone:

Through the above proposal, in the existing mobile phone operating system to virtualize a completely controlled by the Enterprise Virtual OS environment, the application, data can be enterprise management.

When the phone is lost, the administrator can remotely erase the virtual machine to ensure the security of the data (the selling point is to keep the BlackBerry on fire for years)

The benefits of using such programmes are also clear:

Users can use the native application client (Native client, which is currently the best way to recognize the user experience), all operating habits are used in the past, including operations such as gestures.

For clients that do not need to rely on network use, such as RSA dynamic password generators, they can work in a non-networked environment.