Abstract: A graphical user interface to provision business environments on mobile devices presents a navigation panel that displays a virtual phone template menu item and a policy setting menu item. Upon selection of the virtual phone template menu item, a template user interface is presented that enables an administrator to customize virtual phone image templates for users to be delivered to mobile devices that are configured to run the virtual phone image templates as virtual machines on the mobile devices in order to provide a business environment. Upon selection of the policy setting menu item, a policy user interface is presented that enables the administrator to set security policies, wherein each of the security policies specifies a time interval within which a mobile device running a virtual machine corresponding to one of the virtual phone image templates should communicate with an enterprise server to comply with the security policy.

Abstract: One or more embodiments of the invention facilitate switching between a host environment of a mobile device and a guest environment of the mobile device. One method comprises configuring the host environment to launch a user interface (UI) proxy application upon receiving an indication by a user on a user interface (UI) of the mobile device of a desire to switch from the host environment to the guest environment. Upon a launch of the UI proxy application as a result of receiving the indication, the UI proxy application initiates a request to wake-up the guest environment and facilitates access by a hardware framebuffer of the mobile device to contents of a memory buffer that is updated with display data for the guest environment as a result of a waking-up of the guest environment.

Abstract: One or more embodiments of the invention facilitate displaying application icons of a guest environment in a host environment of a mobile device, wherein the guest environment is running in a virtual machine supported by a hypervisor running within the host environment. One method comprises forwarding, by a hypervisor-aware service running in the virtual machine to the hypervisor, a list of applications installed in a guest operating system (OS) of the virtual machine. For each of the installed applications, the hypervisor provides metadata to a host OS running in the host environment, wherein the metadata comprises an application icon and an instruction to launch a proxy application installed in the host environment. Upon a launch of the proxy application when a user selects the application icon, the proxy application requests the hypervisor to communicate with the hypervisor-aware service to launch the installed application in the guest environment.