VMware's Dual OS Smartphone Virtualization Plan Firms Up

Sharky2009 writes "VMware is developing virtualisation for smartphones which can run any two OSes — Windows Mobile, Android or Linux — at once. The idea is to have your work applications and home applications all running insider their own VMs and running at the same time so you can access any app any time. VMware says: 'We don't think dual booting will be good enough — we'll allow you to run both profiles at the same time and be able to switch between them by clicking a button,' he said. 'You'll be able to get and make calls in either profile – work or home – as they will both be live at any given point in time.'" Also mentioned in February of this year, but now the company's announced a target of 2012 for mass production.

Comments

great, so my phone can be even slower

[SuperBanana]

The idea is to have your work applications and home applications all running insider their own VMs and running at the same time so you can access any app any time.

Are they including a free RAM upgrade kit? And why does this seem to be a hammer in search of non-existent nails?

The biggest problem I have right now: lack of dual SIM (or multi-line) support in almost any phone. I don't need to separate "work applications" from "home applications." I need to have a work number / data plan billed to my company, and a home number (with no data plan) billed to me.

*Checks calendar* Yup, it's 2009. VOIP still not possible on my smartphone...

Re:Why?

[sznupi]

Virtualization is hip. Somebody at your management will be swayed.

open source elitism or just fiscal intellegence?

[virtualXTC]

Just because the poster is unwilling void his warranty to make his phone useful and be price gouged by at&t by a mandated data plan just so he can get some of the worst 3G coverage in the nation hardly makes him an elitist; In fact, I would say he's just smarter / more fiscally responsible than you for using just what he needs with out paying for extra.