CN102591671A - Method for starting application program in virtual environment - Google Patents

Abstract

A method for starting an application program in a virtual environment includes the steps: receiving an enabled instruction of one application program from a user by the aid of a host operating system; acquiring operating environmental parameters of the application program; acquiring an IP (internet protocol) address of a virtual machine; enabling a host to be connected with the virtual machine; sending a starting command of the application program to a guest operating system, wherein the starting command comprises a path and execution parameters of the application program; and enabling the guest operating system to start the application program according to the starting command. According to the technical scheme, the application program can be conveniently and quickly started in the virtual environment.

Description

Ways to start an application in a virtual environment

technical field

The invention relates to the technical field of virtualization, in particular to a method for starting an application program in a virtual environment.

Background technique

Virtualization technology allows a platform to run multiple operating systems at the same time, and each operating system runs on a virtual machine, and each operating system has multiple programs running, so that applications can run in independent spaces. Running without affecting each other, on the one hand, it significantly improves the resource utilization of the computer, and on the other hand, it also solves the compatibility problem of cross-platform software.

A complete virtualization environment includes at least one host (Host) and a virtual machine (Virtual Machine) running on the host. The operating system running on the host is called the host operating system (Host OS). The operating system is called the guest operating system (Guest OS). When a user wants to start an application that needs to run in a certain guest operating system from the host operating system, he needs to start the virtual machine where the guest operating system is located on the host first, and then find the path of the application after entering the guest operating system. The corresponding program is executed, and if necessary, the execution parameters required for executing the corresponding program are input. This is not very convenient for the user, especially when it is necessary to start multiple applications running in different guest operating systems, the user has to manually start multiple virtual machines to enter multiple guest operating systems, and start multiple virtual machines respectively. Such cumbersome operations have brought great inconvenience to users, and also brought high learning costs to users.

Contents of the invention

In view of the above, it is necessary to provide a convenient method for starting applications in a virtual environment.

According to the present invention, a method for starting an application program in a virtual environment is provided, the virtual environment includes a host and a virtual machine running on the host, the host includes a host operating system, and the virtual machine includes a guest operating system, so Said method comprises the following steps:

The host operating system receives a user's start command for an application program;

Acquiring the operating environment parameters of the application program;

Obtain the IP address of the virtual machine;

establishing a connection between the host and the virtual machine;

issuing a startup command of the application program to the guest operating system, where the startup command includes the path and execution parameters of the application program; and

The guest operating system starts the application program according to the start command.

Preferably, the operating environment parameters include virtual machine name, virtual machine MAC address, guest operating system type, application path and execution parameters.

Preferably, the method further includes creating a shortcut of the application program on the host operating system, and the shortcut is associated with operating environment parameters of the application program.

Further preferably, the shortcut is displayed as a first icon.

Optionally, during the waiting period after starting the application program in the method, the shortcut is displayed as a second icon.

Optionally, during the waiting period after starting the application, the method displays a progress bar on the host operating system, where the progress bar is used to represent the startup progress of the application.

Optionally, the step of obtaining the IP address of the virtual machine in the method specifically includes the following steps:

Obtain the name of the virtual machine;

Obtain the IP address corresponding to the virtual machine name from the virtual machine IP address mapping table.

Optionally, the step of obtaining the IP address of the virtual machine in the method specifically includes the following steps:

Obtain the MAC address of the virtual machine;

Obtain the IP address corresponding to the MAC address by using a reverse address translation protocol.

Further preferably, after the step of obtaining the IP address of the virtual machine, the method further includes the following steps:

Obtain the name of the virtual machine;

Write the name and IP address of the virtual machine into the virtual machine IP address mapping table.

Optionally, the operating environment parameters are stored in an Extensible Markup Language file.

Optionally, the step of establishing the connection between the host and the virtual machine in the method specifically includes the following steps:

The host sends a connection request to the IP address of the virtual machine;

If the host receives the request response from the virtual machine, establish a TCP protocol connection with the virtual machine;

If the host does not receive the request response from the virtual machine or the received request response is invalid, start or restart the virtual machine, and establish a TCP protocol connection with the virtual machine.

Compared with the prior art, the above-mentioned method for starting an application program in a virtual environment can enable a user to conveniently and quickly start one or more application programs that need to run in different guest operating systems from a host operating system, and multiple Applications belonging to different operating systems can run on one host at the same time without interference, and users do not need to memorize cumbersome operations.

Description of drawings

FIG. 1 is a schematic diagram of a virtual environment architecture in an embodiment of the present invention.

Fig. 2 is a schematic diagram of the architecture of starting an application program in a virtual environment in an embodiment of the present invention.

Fig. 3 is a schematic diagram of the data structure of the running environment parameters associated with the shortcut of the application program in an embodiment of the present invention.

Fig. 4 is a flowchart of a method for starting an application in a virtual environment in an embodiment of the present invention.

Detailed ways

The present invention will be described in further detail below in combination with specific implementation methods and accompanying drawings.

Please refer to Fig. 1, which schematically shows a virtual environment architecture according to an embodiment of the present invention, the virtual environment includes a host and several virtual machines running on the host, and the operating system running on the host is called the host The operating system is used to manage the virtual machine and allocate and schedule host resources for the virtual machine, such as CPU, memory, and storage. In some virtual environments, the system that performs the function of the host operating system is called a Hypervisor. The operating system running on the virtual machine is called the guest operating system. Since the virtual machines are independent of each other, the guest operating systems on the virtual machine can be of various types without interfering with each other. For example, the guest operating system on virtual machine 1 The operating system is Windows XP, the guest operating system on virtual machine 2 is Chromium, the guest operating system on virtual machine 3 is ubuntu, and the guest operating systems on multiple virtual machines can run simultaneously.

In a virtual environment, the host assigns an internal IP address to each virtual machine through NAT port mapping, and the virtual machines share and use the network resources of the host through the assigned IP address. Between the host and the virtual machine or between the virtual machines, the TCP protocol can be used to establish a connection relationship and realize data communication.

Please refer to FIG. 2 , which schematically shows a framework for starting an application program in a virtual environment according to an embodiment of the present invention. Users need to run multiple applications, and these applications have different operating environment parameters. For example, some applications need to run under the A operating system, some need to run under the B operating system, and some need to provide execution during runtime. parameter. In this embodiment, a shortcut of the application program is established on the host operating system, and the shortcut is associated with the operating environment parameters of the application program. The user only needs to execute the shortcut of the application in the host operating system to start the application associated with the shortcut.

Please refer to FIG. 3 , which schematically shows a data structure of running environment parameters associated with a shortcut of an application program according to an embodiment of the present invention. In an implementation manner, in order to provide an intuitive interface for the user, the shortcut is displayed as a first icon. Through the first icon, the user can conveniently and quickly browse and find the application program to be started. In order to provide a more friendly user experience, in another implementation manner, when the shortcut is clicked and executed by the user and the corresponding application program has not been started, the shortcut is displayed as a second icon, The second icon is used to prompt the user that the corresponding application program is already being started, so as to prevent the user from repeatedly clicking and executing the shortcut.

As shown in Figure 3, the data structure of the running environment parameters associated with the shortcut of the application program includes the first image path, the second image path, the name of the virtual machine, the Mac address of the virtual machine, the type of the guest operating system, the path of the application program, and Data items such as execution parameters. Of course, in order to expand the operating environment parameters associated with the shortcuts of the application programs, data items can be added or deleted as needed in the data structure.

Please refer to FIG. 4 , which schematically shows a flowchart of a method for starting an application in a virtual environment according to an embodiment of the present invention, the virtual environment includes a host and a virtual machine running on the host, and the host A host operating system is included, the virtual machine includes a guest operating system, and the method includes the following steps:

In step S401, the host operating system receives a user's instruction to start the application. In an implementation manner, the entry for starting the application program is a shortcut located in the host operating system, and the shortcut is associated with the running environment parameters of the application program. The user sends an instruction to start the application program to the host operating system by double-clicking or other preset operations.

In step S402, the running environment parameters of the application program are obtained, and the running environment parameters include the name of the virtual machine, the MAC address of the virtual machine, the type of the guest operating system, the path of the application program, and execution parameters. In one embodiment, the operating environment parameters are stored in an Extensible Markup Language file.

In step S403, the IP address of the virtual machine is acquired.

In one embodiment, the step of obtaining the IP address of the virtual machine specifically includes: obtaining the name of the virtual machine; obtaining the IP address corresponding to the name of the virtual machine from a virtual machine IP address mapping table. The host allocates an internal IP address to each virtual machine through NAT port mapping, and records the mapping relationship into the virtual machine IP address mapping table.

In another implementation manner, the step of obtaining the IP address of the virtual machine specifically includes: obtaining the MAC address of the virtual machine; and obtaining the IP address corresponding to the MAC address by using a reverse address translation protocol. The Reverse Address Resolution Protocol (RARP: Reverse Address Resolution Protocol) allows a physical machine in a network domain to request its IP address from the ARP table or cache of the gateway server. In a virtual environment, the host is a gateway server for several virtual machines.

In order to reduce system overhead, in a further improved implementation, after the step of obtaining the IP address of the virtual machine, the method further includes: obtaining the name of the virtual machine; writing the name and IP address of the virtual machine to into the virtual machine IP address mapping table.

In step S404, a connection between the host and the virtual machine is established. In this implementation manner, a connection is established between the host and the virtual machine using the TCP protocol, which is a reliable, connection-oriented transmission control protocol. The host sends a connection request to the IP address of the virtual machine, and if the host receives the virtual machine's request response, establishes a TCP protocol connection with the virtual machine; if the host does not receive If the request response or received request response of the virtual machine is invalid, it indicates that the virtual machine may not be operating at this time, or may be in an abnormal state during operation, and cannot respond to the connection request sent by the host. In this case , it is necessary to start or restart the virtual machine, and then establish a TCP protocol connection with the virtual machine.

In step S405, a startup command of the application program is sent to the guest operating system, and the startup command includes the path and execution parameters of the application program. The path of the application program refers to the path of the application program in the guest operating system. The host operating system sends the startup command to the guest operating system through the established TCP protocol connection.

In step S406, the guest operating system starts the application program according to the start command.

In another embodiment, the method for starting an application in a virtual environment further includes creating a shortcut of the application on the host operating system, and the shortcut is associated with the running environment of the application parameter. In order to provide an intuitive interface for the user, the shortcut is displayed as a first icon. Through the first icon, the user can conveniently and quickly browse and find the application program to be started. In order to provide a more friendly user experience, in another implementation manner, when the shortcut is clicked and executed by the user and the corresponding application program has not been started, the shortcut is displayed as a second icon, The second icon is used to prompt the user that the corresponding application program is already being started, so as to prevent the user from repeatedly clicking and executing the shortcut.

In another embodiment, the method for starting an application in a virtual environment displays a progress bar on the host operating system during the waiting period after starting the application, and the progress bar is used for Indicates the startup progress of the application in question.

For those skilled in the art, other corresponding changes or adjustments can be made according to the inventive solution and inventive concept of the present invention combined with the actual needs of production, and these changes and adjustments should all belong to the protection scope of the claims of the present invention.

Claims (10)

1. A method for starting an application program in a virtual environment, the virtual environment includes a host and a virtual machine running on the host, the host includes a host operating system, and the virtual machine includes a guest operating system, characterized in that: The method comprises the steps of: The host operating system receives a user's start command for an application program; Acquiring the operating environment parameters of the application program; Obtain the IP address of the virtual machine; establishing a connection between the host and the virtual machine; issuing a startup command of the application program to the guest operating system, where the startup command includes the path and execution parameters of the application program; and The guest operating system starts the application program according to the start command. 2. The method for starting an application program in a virtual environment as claimed in claim 1, wherein the operating environment parameters include virtual machine name, virtual machine MAC address, guest operating system type, path and execution parameters of the application program . 3. The method for starting an application program in a virtual environment as claimed in claim 1, wherein said method further comprises the following steps: A shortcut of the application program is established on the host operating system, and the shortcut is associated with operating environment parameters of the application program. 4. The method for starting an application program in a virtual environment according to claim 3, wherein the shortcut is displayed as a first icon. 5 . The method for starting an application in a virtual environment according to claim 3 , wherein the shortcut is displayed as a second icon during the waiting period after starting the application. 5 . 6. The method for starting an application program in a virtual environment as claimed in claim 1, wherein the method displays a progress bar on the host operating system during the waiting period after starting the application program , the progress bar is used to represent the startup progress of the application. 7. The method for starting an application program in a virtual environment as claimed in claim 2, wherein the step of obtaining the IP address of the virtual machine in the method specifically comprises the following steps: Obtain the name of the virtual machine; Obtain the IP address corresponding to the virtual machine name from the virtual machine IP address mapping table. 8. The method for starting an application program in a virtual environment as claimed in claim 2, wherein the step of obtaining the IP address of the virtual machine in the method specifically comprises the following steps: Obtain the MAC address of the virtual machine; Obtain the IP address corresponding to the MAC address by using a reverse address translation protocol. 9. The method for starting an application program in a virtual environment as claimed in claim 8, wherein the method further comprises the following steps after obtaining the IP address of the virtual machine: Obtain the name of the virtual machine; Write the name and IP address of the virtual machine into the virtual machine IP address mapping table. 10. The method for starting an application program in a virtual environment according to claim 1, wherein the step of establishing the connection between the host and the virtual machine in the method specifically comprises the following steps: The host sends a connection request to the IP address of the virtual machine; If the host receives the request response from the virtual machine, establish a TCP protocol connection with the virtual machine; If the host does not receive the request response from the virtual machine or the received request response is invalid, start or restart the virtual machine, and establish a TCP protocol connection with the virtual machine.

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