WO2013004182A1

WO2013004182A1 - Virtualized installation and loading method and apparatus for application program

Info

Publication number: WO2013004182A1
Application number: PCT/CN2012/078157
Authority: WO
Inventors: 靳伟
Original assignee: 华为数字技术（成都）有限公司
Priority date: 2011-07-04
Filing date: 2012-07-04
Publication date: 2013-01-10
Also published as: CN102231116A

Abstract

Provided are a virtualized installation method and apparatus for an application program. The method comprises the steps of: when a target volume where an application program is to be installed is different from a volume where a host operating system is located, acquiring a current path of an application program installation source and a path of the target volume; when a preset file directory tree exists on the target volume, loading an installation program of the application program of the host operating system; when the host operating system installs the application system, redirecting an installation path of the application program to the file directory tree in the target volume. Also provided are a virtualized loading method and apparatus for an application program.

Description

Application Virtualization Installation and Loading Method and Apparatus The present application claims to be filed on July 4, 2011 by the Chinese Patent Office, application number 201110184189.0, and the invention titled "Application Virtualization Installation and Loading Method and Apparatus" Priority is hereby incorporated by reference in its entirety.

Technical field

Embodiments of the present invention relate to the field of security technologies, and in particular, to an application virtualization installation and loading method and apparatus. BACKGROUND Virtualization technology can concentrate the work originally distributed on several servers on one hardware platform, so as to fully utilize hardware resources, save management and control costs, wherein application virtualization technology The decoupling of the operating system provides a virtual operating environment for the application, and changes its behavior when the application is running through technical means without changing the application itself.

The virtualization of the application under the Windows platform can be achieved by: extracting the registration information of the specified software in the operating system and the file of the software, and replacing the application programming interface involved in the operation of the registry by the user's operating system kernel. And the file filtering driver is established according to the standard interface of the operating system, so that the operating system kernel can identify the registration information in the software resource and the file of the software according to a predetermined format, and finally the operating system kernel runs the software resource according to the request of the user or the system. Designated software. However, the inventor's research found that before the software virtualization runs, it is necessary to extract the registration information of the specified software in the operating system registry and the software's files. This process is very complicated; the extracted data resources must be saved as scheduled. The format, each software has a separate file to save the registry information, so the file system will also have serious redundancy. Summary of the invention

Embodiments of the present invention provide a method and apparatus for application virtualization installation and loading to provide a solution for implementing application virtualization. An embodiment of the present invention provides a method for installing an application virtualization, including: when a target volume to be installed by an application is different from a volume where the host operating system is located, obtaining a path where the application installation source is currently located and the target volume path; Loading an application installer of the host operating system when the preset file directory tree exists on the target volume; and redirecting the installation path of the application to the host operating system when the host operating system is installed In the file directory tree on the target volume. An embodiment of the present invention further provides an application virtualization loading method, including:

Obtaining a user-specified application name and path on the target volume, where the target volume is different from the volume where the host operating system is located; loading an application installed on the target volume; and performing an application on the host operating system At load time, the lookup path for the application load and the resources required for the run is redirected to the file directory tree on the target volume. The embodiment of the invention further provides an apparatus for installing an application virtualization, comprising:

When you are in the volume, get the path and target volume path of the application installation source; a first loading unit, configured to load an application installer of the host operating system when a preset file directory tree exists on the target volume; a first redirecting unit, configured to execute an application in the host operating system When the program is installed, the application's installation path is redirected to the file directory tree of the target volume. An embodiment of the present invention further provides an apparatus for application virtualization loading, including:

a second obtaining unit, configured to acquire a user-specified application name and path on the target volume, where the target volume is a volume of a different host operating system;

a second loading unit, configured to load an application installed on the target volume; a second redirection unit, configured to load and run an application resource when the host operating system loads the application The lookup path is redirected to the file directory tree on the target volume.

Install a complex large-scale application on the host operating system platform that cannot change the installation location to the target volume selected by the user, for example: a mobile hard disk, etc., the user can install multiple applications on the same target volume and share one. File directory tree; When the user selects the mobile media as the target volume for the application virtualization installation, as the media moves, the application and data move simultaneously, providing the user with a mobile software installation and deployment method. .

DRAWINGS

In order to more clearly illustrate the embodiments of the present invention or the technical solutions in the prior art, the drawings to be used in the embodiments or the description of the prior art will be briefly described below. The drawings in the above are some embodiments of the present invention, and those skilled in the art can obtain other drawings based on these drawings without any creative work.

1 is a flowchart of an application virtualization installation method according to an embodiment of the present invention; FIG. 2 is a flowchart of another application virtualization installation method according to an embodiment of the present invention; A flowchart of an application virtualization loading method is provided. FIG. 4 is a structural diagram of an apparatus for virtualizing an application program according to an embodiment of the present invention; FIG. 5 is another application provided by an embodiment of the present invention. FIG. 6 is a structural diagram of an apparatus for virtualizing application loading according to an embodiment of the present invention; FIG. 7 is a schematic diagram of another apparatus for virtualizing loading of an application according to an embodiment of the present invention; Figure. detailed description

The technical solutions in the embodiments of the present invention are clearly and completely described in the following with reference to the accompanying drawings in the embodiments of the present invention. It is a partial embodiment of the invention, and not all of the embodiments. All other embodiments obtained by a person of ordinary skill in the art based on the embodiments of the present invention without departing from the inventive scope are the scope of the present invention. As shown, the method of this embodiment may include:

Step 100: When the target volume to be installed by the application is different from the volume of the host operating system itself, obtain the path of the application installation source and the path of the target volume;

The client software can be provided by providing an application virtualization installation. If the user selects the virtualization installation, the client software is started. After the user selects the target volume and the installation source, the target volume installed by the client (hereinafter referred to as the first) The target volume is different from the volume on which the host operates the operating system. An application virtualization installation method of an embodiment of the present invention;

The application installation source mentioned in the embodiment of the present invention may be a mainstream software installation package supported by the host operating system, and the Mac OS operating system is taken as an example, and may be a mainstream software installation package supported by the Mac OS operating system, such as pkg, mpkg. Software packages in other formats;

Step 102: When a preset file directory tree exists on the first target volume, load an application installation program of the host operating system;

Wherein, the file directory tree may be created on the first target volume before the application virtualization installation method is executed; when the preset file directory tree does not exist on the first target volume, the application virtualization installation process may also be performed. After creating the file directory tree, load the application installer of the host operating system;

The first target volume installed by the application should be different from the volume of the host operating system itself, and can usually be a mobile storage device, such as a USB flash drive or a mobile hard disk.

In order to perform file management, a file directory tree needs to be created on the first target volume. Through the method provided by the embodiment of the present invention, the application installation location is finally found in the file directory tree; the virtualization application and data are stored in this file. In the directory structure, after the application is installed, the file system where the file directory is located will be changed, such as adding directories and files;

In the embodiment of the present invention, in the virtual installation process of the application, if the file directory structure already exists in the first target volume, the application installation program of the host operating system is directly loaded;

Step 104: When the host operating system performs an application installation, redirect the installation path of the application to the file directory tree of the first target volume;

The embodiment of the invention provides a method for installing an application virtualization, which can install a complex large-scale application on the host operating system platform that cannot change the installation location to the user. On the target volume, for example: mobile hard disk, etc., users can install multiple applications on the same target volume and share a file directory tree; when the user selects mobile media as the target volume of the application virtualization installation, The movement of media, applications and data move at the same time, providing users with a mobile software installation and deployment method.

The embodiment of the present invention does not limit the type of the operating system platform to which the solution is applied. The embodiment of the present invention is only illustrated by using the Mac OS operating system as an example; FIG. 2 is another application virtualization installation according to an embodiment of the present invention. The flowchart of the method, which is applied to the scenario of the Mac OS operating system platform, includes:

Step 201: When the first target volume to be installed by the application is different from the volume where the Mac OS operating system is located, obtain a path where the application installation source is currently located and a path of the first target volume;

Step 202: Determine whether there is a preset file directory tree on the first target volume, and if not, execute step 203; if yes, directly execute step 204;

Before the application is installed on the first target volume or during the installation process, in order to prevent the user's experience from changing during the running of the application, the embodiment of the present invention constructs the application installation and operation in the directory tree of the first target volume. Directory, for example: Build a directory structure similar or identical to the directory tree structure in the volume where the Mac OS system resides, so that the installation directory on the first target volume of the application is similar or identical to the installation directory of the volume on which the Mac OS system resides;

Step 203: Create a file directory tree.

Step 204: Load an application installer of the Mac OS system;

Step 205: Monitor the process of installing the application of the Mac OS operating system, and redirect the path involving the file and file directory operations in the application process of the Mac OS operating system to the file directory tree on the first target volume; When the resource is retrieved from the system library file that is provided by the host operating system, the path of the resource is not changed. In the process of application installation, operations involving files and file directories may include: file creation, opening, obtaining file attributes, modifying file attributes, directory creation, modifying directory attributes, changing file and directory names, and the like;

In the specific implementation, the intercepted file and file directory operations are overwritten with parameters related to the file or file directory path in the operation;

In the embodiment of the present invention, during the installation process of monitoring the application program of the Mac OS operating system, the file and file directory operations are involved, and the operations are intercepted, and the path parameters of the intercepted operation can be redirected by the mapping algorithm. , through the mapping algorithm, map the path of the Mac OS OS X system installation program to the file and file directory on the volume where the Mac OS system is located (except the system library file that comes with the Mac OS system itself). In the file directory of the virtual file system of a target volume, the application is finally installed into the file directory tree on the first target volume; the path of the recording operation is redirected to the file directory on the first target volume, Find the installation location of the application in the file directory of the first target volume through the mapping algorithm, and the file directory tree on the first target volume is compared with the original related directory of the volume where the Mac OS system is located, which is very similar. Sex, in order to redirect the location of the application and the file and file directories involved in the application installation A similar location can be found, for example, it should be in the system disk C: /Applications/Adobe location, after mapping, it becomes the /Volumes/H/Applications/Adobe location on the first target volume H disk; The directory tree on the first target volume should avoid excessive redundancy and can meet the installation and operation requirements;

Where the target installation involves redirecting the location of the file and file directories in the target volume A method for finding a similar location can maintain the mapping relationship between the files and file directories in the volume where the host operating system is located and the files and file directories on the first target volume. Mapping the relationship table, mapping the path to the file and file directory on the volume where the Mac OS system is located (except the system library file that comes with the Mac OS system itself) to the file directory of the virtual file system of the first target volume Or directly, the file system on the first target volume is set to the same or similar file directory structure as the file directory structure on the volume where the host operating system is located, so that the redirect can be directly found in the first target volume. The device is provided with a device for implementing virtualized installation on the Mac OS operating system platform, and can install a complex large-scale application on the Mac OS operating system platform that cannot change the installation location. To the user selected target volume, and, with the application installed on Mac OS Compared to the user experience is almost no change in volume on the system lies.

On the basis of the virtualization installation method provided by the embodiment of the present invention, referring to FIG. 3, the embodiment of the present invention further provides an application virtualization loading method, which is still taken as an example on an application of the Mac OS operating system platform. Implementing an application running on the first target volume, the method comprising:

Step 300: Obtain a user-specified application name and path on the first target volume, where the first target volume is different from the volume on which the Mac OS operating system is located;

The embodiment of the present invention provides an application virtualization loading method based on the application virtualization installation method provided by the foregoing embodiment, which can be provided to the user by using an application virtualization operation client. When the corresponding program in the application virtualization client is clicked, the process of the application virtualization operation of the embodiment of the present invention is directly started;

Step 302: Load an application installed on the first target volume;

Before step 302, the method may further include: checking the status and integrity of the virtual file system, End the installation when the file system of the target volume does not meet the application installation conditions;

The content of the directory tree and the included file of the virtual file system may be checked before the loading, and the content of the check may include: whether the file is missing, the size of the remaining space, and the like; sending the alarm information may include: informing the user that the installation fails. Information such as abnormal conditions.

Step 304: When the Mac OS operating system loads the application, redirect the search path of the application loading and running resources to the file directory tree on the first target volume;

Step 304 may specifically be performed by: monitoring the application running, and when the resource needs to be retrieved from the file and file directory tree, redirecting the path that should be resourced from the volume where the Mac OS operating system is located to the first The file directory tree on the target volume to enable the application on the first target volume to run on the Mac OS operating system platform;

The path of the intercepted operation may be redirected by using a mapping algorithm, and the path of the resource in the file and file directory tree that should be found and operated from the volume where the Mac OS operating system is located, when the application is running, is mapped by the mapping algorithm. The file is mapped to the file directory tree of the virtual file system of the first target volume. When the resource is retrieved from the system library file that is provided by the host operating system, the path of the resource is not changed.

The method for implementing application loading on the Mac OS operating system platform provided by the embodiment of the present invention implements loading and running of the application on the first target volume on the Mac OS operating system platform without affecting the user experience.

Referring to FIG. 4, an embodiment of the present invention provides an apparatus for installing an application virtualization, including: a first obtaining unit 40, configured to acquire an application when a target volume to be installed by an application is different from a volume of a host operating system itself. The path where the program installation source is currently located and the target volume path;

As long as the target volume that the application is ready to install (hereafter referred to as the first target volume) is different from the host operation When the system is in the volume, the application virtualization installation method of the embodiment of the present invention is started; the application installation source mentioned in the embodiment of the present invention may be a mainstream software installation package supported by the host operating system, such as pkg, mpkg, and the like. Software package

The first loading unit 42 is configured to directly load an application installation program of the host system when a preset file directory tree exists on the first target volume;

a first redirecting unit 44, configured to redirect an installation path of the application to a file directory tree of the first target volume when the host operating system performs an application installation;

According to an application virtualization installation device provided by the embodiment of the present invention, a complex large-scale application on a host operating system platform can be installed on a target volume selected by a user, for example, a mobile hard disk, etc., and the user can Applications are installed on the same target volume and share a file directory tree; when the user selects mobile media as the target volume for the application virtualization installation, as the media moves, the application and data move simultaneously, providing the user with A method of software installation and deployment with mobility.

Referring to FIG. 5, an embodiment of the present invention provides another device for virtualizing an application, which is applied to a Mac OS operating system platform, and includes:

The first obtaining unit 50 is configured to obtain a path of the application installation source and a path of the target volume when the target volume to be installed by the application is different from the volume of the Mac OS operating system itself;

The determining unit 51 is configured to determine whether a preset file directory exists on the first target volume, and send a judgment result;

a creating unit 52, configured to receive the determination result sent by the determining unit 521, when the determination result is no, Creating a file directory, notifying the first loading unit 53 after the creation is completed; creating a file directory tree on the first target volume;

The file directory tree created on the first target volume has a directory structure similar to or the same as the directory tree structure in the volume where the Mac OS system resides, which causes the application to be installed on the first target volume and the volume where the Mac OS system resides. The directories are similar or identical;

The first loading unit 53 is configured to receive the determination result sent by the determining unit 51 and the creating unit 52 to notify; when there is a preset file directory tree on the first target volume, the application program of the Mac OS system is loaded;

The first redirection unit 54 is configured to redirect an installation path of the application to a file directory tree of the first target volume when the Mac OS operating system performs an application installation;

The first redirecting unit 54 can include:

The first monitoring unit 541 is configured to monitor a process of installing an application of the Mac OS operating system; the first redirection processing unit 542 is configured to load a path involving a file and a file directory operation during an application installation process of the Mac OS operating system. Directed to the file directory tree on the first target volume; the path of the recorded operation is redirected to the file directory on the first target volume, and the application installation location can be found in the file directory of the first target volume by the mapping algorithm The file directory tree on the first target volume is constructed, and the directory is compared with the original related directory of the volume where the Mac OS system is located, which has great similarity, so that the location of the file and file directory involved in the application installation is at the target. A similar location can be found on the volume.

The embodiment of the present invention provides a user with an application on a Mac OS operating system platform. A virtualized installation that installs a large and complex application on the Mac OS operating system platform to a user-selected target volume, and compares it to the volume on which the application is installed on the volume on which the Mac OS operating system resides. There is almost no change on it.

Referring to FIG. 6, an embodiment of the present invention provides an apparatus for virtualizing an application on a host operating system platform, which is provided by the foregoing embodiment, and provides an apparatus for virtualizing an application, including:

The second obtaining unit 60 is configured to obtain an application name and a path specified by the user on the first target volume, where the first target volume is different from the volume where the host operating system is located;

a second loading unit 61, configured to load an application installed on the first target volume;

a second redirecting unit 62, configured to redirect, when the host operating system loads the application, a search path of the required resources for loading and running of the application to a file directory tree on the first target volume;

The loading and running of the application on the first target volume is implemented by the method for implementing application loading on the host operating system platform provided by the embodiment of the present invention.

Referring to FIG. 7 , which is still used as an example on the Mac OS operating system platform, the embodiment of the present invention further provides another device for virtualizing loading of an application, which is different from the embodiment corresponding to FIG. 6 and further includes:

The checking unit 73 is configured to check the status and integrity of the file system on the first target volume before loading the application installed on the first target volume;

The second redirecting unit 72 may include:

a second monitoring unit 721, configured to monitor application running;

The second processing unit 722 is configured to: when the resource needs to be retrieved from the file and file directory tree, The path of the resource to be retrieved from the volume where the Mac OS operating system is located should be redirected to the file directory tree on the first target volume, so that the application on the first target volume runs on the Mac OS operating system platform; Other structures and functions are the same as those of the corresponding embodiment of FIG. 6, and details are not described herein again. Embodiments of the present invention provide a method and apparatus for implementing application virtualization installation and loading on a Mac OS system, which can install a complex large-scale application on a Mac OS operating system platform to a target volume selected by a user, for example: For hard disks, etc., users can install multiple applications on the same target volume and share a file directory tree. When the user selects the mobile media as the target volume for the application virtualization installation, the application and data move with the media. Will move at the same time, providing users with a mobile software installation and deployment method. A person skilled in the art can understand that all or part of the steps of implementing the above method embodiments may be completed by using hardware related to the program instructions. The foregoing program may be stored in a computer readable storage medium, and the program is executed when executed. The foregoing steps include the steps of the foregoing method embodiments; and the foregoing storage medium includes: a medium that can store program codes, such as a ROM, a RAM, a magnetic disk, or an optical disk.

Finally, it should be noted that the above embodiments are only for explaining the technical solutions of the present invention, and are not intended to be limiting; although the present invention has been described in detail with reference to the foregoing embodiments, those skilled in the art will understand that The technical solutions described in the foregoing embodiments are modified, or some of the technical features are equivalently replaced. The modifications and substitutions do not depart from the spirit and scope of the technical solutions of the embodiments of the present invention.

Claims

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A method for installing an application virtualization, comprising: obtaining a path where the application installation source is currently located and the target volume path when the target volume to be installed by the application is different from the volume of the host operating system; Loading an application installer of the host operating system when a preset file directory tree exists on the target volume; and redirecting an installation path of the application to the host operating system when performing an application installation The file directory tree on the target volume.

The method for installing an application virtualization according to claim 1, wherein the redirecting the installation path of the application to a file directory tree on the target volume is characterized by: Monitoring the process of the host operating system to perform the application installation, by redirecting the path involving the file and the file directory operation in the application installation process, where the system library file that is provided by the host operating system is operated The path is not redirected.

The method for installing an application virtualization according to claim 1, further comprising:: virtualizing in the application when there is no preset file directory tree on the target volume to be installed by the application; During the installation process, after the file directory tree is created, the application installer of the host operating system is loaded.

4. The method of application virtualization installation according to claim 2, wherein said Path redirection involving file and file directory operations in the application installation process, including: mapping between files and file directories on the volume where the host operating system is located and files and file directories on the target volume And mapping, in the host operating system installation program, a path for operating the file and the file directory on the volume where the host operating system is located to a file directory of the virtual file system of the target volume, where The path of the system library file that comes with the host operating system is not mapped.

An application virtualization loading method, comprising: acquiring a user-specified application name and path on a target volume, where the target volume is different from a volume where the host operating system is located; loading the target An application installed on the volume; when the host operating system loads the application, redirects the search path of the resources required for application loading and running to the file directory tree on the target volume.

The application virtualization loading method according to claim 5, wherein the searching path for loading resources required for application loading and running is redirected to a file directory tree on the target volume, including The monitoring application runs. When the resource needs to be retrieved from the file and file directory tree of the volume where the host operating system is located, the path of the retrieved resource is redirected to the file directory tree on the target volume, where When the resource is retrieved from the system library file that comes with the host operating system, the path to the resource is not changed.

7. An apparatus for installing an application virtualization, comprising: When the volume is located, the path of the application installation source and the path of the target volume are obtained. The first loading unit is configured to load the application of the host operating system when a preset file directory tree exists on the target volume. a first redirecting unit, configured to redirect an installation path of the application to a file directory tree of the target volume when the host operating system performs an application installation.

8. The device according to claim 7, further comprising:

a determining unit, configured to determine whether a preset file directory exists on the target volume, and send a judgment result;

a creating unit, configured to receive a determination result sent by the determining unit, and when the determining result is no, create a file directory, and notify the first loading unit after the creation is completed.

The device according to claim 7 or 8, wherein the first redirection unit comprises: a first monitoring unit, configured to monitor a process of installing an application of the host operating system; And a processing unit, configured to redirect a path related to the file and file directory operations in the application installation process of the host operating system to a file directory tree on the target volume.

10. An apparatus for application virtualization loading, comprising:

a second loading unit, configured to load an application installed on the target volume; And a second redirecting unit, configured to redirect, when the host operating system loads the application, a search path of the required resources for loading and running of the application to a file directory tree on the target volume.

The device according to claim 10, wherein the second redirection unit comprises: a second monitoring unit, configured to monitor an application running; and a second processing unit, configured to: when needed from the host When the resource is retrieved from the file and file directory tree of the volume where the operating system is located, the path of the resource is redirected to the file directory tree on the target volume, where the system library file is loaded from the host operating system. When a resource is taken, the path to the resource is not changed.

12. The device according to claim 10, further comprising:

a checking unit, configured to check a status and integrity of a file system on the target volume before loading an application installed on the target volume, and send an alarm when a file system of the target volume does not meet an application installation condition information.