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VMware Demos Two Operating Systems On Mobile Phone

Posted by timothy on from the for-both-your-personalities dept.

nk497 writes "Virtualisation firm VMware has demonstrated its new mobile virtualisation platform, which allows two operating systems to be used at the same time on a single device. On stage at its European conference, VMware reps used a touchscreen Nokia N800 — more of a tablet computer than a phone — with a prototype of its hypervisor to boot and run both Windows CE and Google's Android, at the same time. The firm has yet to announce when such tech will be found in phones."

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  1. It's about time by jeffmeden · · Score: 4, Funny

    I am SO tired of having to dual boot my phone just to get the great internal features of Google Android alongside the application support of Windows mobile. Finally, I can take advantage of the spare storage, memory, and CPU capacity dwelling on my phone and simply run both at the same time! VMware, you have done it again!

    1. Re:It's about time by Wesley+Felter · · Score: 2, Funny

      The real question is whether the hypervisor implements proper looback so that one VM can call the other one. :-)

  2. Finally by IceCreamGuy · · Score: 2, Funny

    Finally! Now I can run a Beowulf cluster on a single cell phone, we've been waiting so long!

    1. Re:Finally by Hognoxious · · Score: 2, Funny

      1/(n*1.05) the speed of the origional CPU where n is the number of visualization.

      So without and vm = n=0 we get the speed of a single device.

      Really? Without a VM it runs at a speed of NaN or DivideByZeroError?

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