Samsung and VMWare Bringing Virtualization to Android

Posted by Unknown on Wednesday September 7, 2011 @05:14AM from the it's-all-turtles-man dept.

jbrodkin writes with an interesting article in Ars Technica about virtualization and phones. From the article: "VMware's mission to bring virtualization to the mobile market gained a major supporter last week when Samsung pledged to use VMware software to build business-friendly smartphones and tablets. The project known as Horizon Mobile will let Android phones use virtual machine technology to run a second instance of Android, in much the same way virtualization works on servers and desktops. The user essentially has two completely separate phones running on one device, and can switch from the personal one to the corporate one by clicking a 'work phone' icon." There are others pushing alternative approaches to virtualization on mobile devices.

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virtualbox by kiwirob · 2011-09-07 05:59 · Score: -1, Troll

Why bother with VMWARE. Given Googles history of stealing code from Sun why don't hey just use VirtualBox and pretend it was a clean room implementation.
1. Re:virtualbox by kiwirob · 2011-09-07 06:14 · Score: -1, Troll
  
  The recent court documents in Oracle vs Google show that Sun offered google a Java license and they decided just to use the code without a license. So Google deciding to start paying for other peoples software would be a 100% change in previous strategy of just borrow without paying.