Providing a virtual desktop service based on physical distance on network from the user terminal and improving network I/O performance based on power consumption

Disclosed herein are a method and apparatus for virtual desktop service. The apparatus includes a connection manager configured to perform an assignment task of assigning a virtual machine to a user terminal using virtual desktop service, a resource pool configured to allocate software resources to a virtual desktop, wherein the software resources include an OS, applications, and user profiles, and a virtual machine infrastructure configured to support hardware resources including a CPU and a memory, wherein the connection manager is configured to perform a coordination task of coordinating a delivery protocol used between the user terminal and servers that provide the virtual desktop service, wherein the resource pool has a management function, wherein the management function is based on usage pattern information about a user's average usage of resources, and wherein the management function uses a physical distance on network from the user terminal to a server.