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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 Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Interesting

      The mobile stack is implemented as not much more than a serial port, so the virtualization layer will be able to handle it the same way the desktop version would share a modem between multiple guests. That is, it would be trivial.

  2. Re:Anyone else seeing a point in this? by Captain+Spam · · Score: 4, Informative

    [...] so all that is needed is for someone to make an Android emulator.

    The Android SDK comes with a development emulator for Windows, Linux, and OS X. Does the job quite nicely, I'd say.

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