MoClouDesk: Virtualized Desktop for Mobile Environment

Mobile devices such as PDAs and cellphones, limited to its´ computing and storage capability, are not capable to run ordinary PC applications. But virtualization technology gives us another choice: the software can run on a server (generally in a virtual machine) and the user interface is transmitted to the client. We have developed MoClouDesk, a virtualized desktop architecture for mobile devices, which provides a real virtual working environment. MoClouDesk virtualizes the desktop by forming a desktop environment, similar to local desktop, while all the applications are running on the virtual machine of remote servers. Users can use different applications from cross-platform operating systems, and use them just the same as local applications. Users could personally customize and update the applications list from the application templates library. This paper explores how to build a virtual desktop environment for mobile device. Experiments demonstrate and evaluate its efficiency and effectiveness.