Multiple OSes on one device

December 7, 2009 | By l3v5y

VMWare, who seem to be the main provider of virtualisation technology for desktop PCs have extended their reign to mobile devices as well! Whilst not planned to be available until 2012, it still looks very interesting.

The video is of a Nokia N800 running Windows CE and Android.

The VMWare Mobile Virtualization Platform (MVP) apparently only takes up 20kb of memory, and lets multiple different OSes run in parallel on the same hardware, and can in theory run any OS that will work on ARMv4 to ARMv7 CPUs.

I wonder how long it is until we get hardware and software provided separately like desktop computers…

Via Windows For Devices

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I do hope the HD2 will be able to cope with that.

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No need to hope for that with a release date of 2012.

By then, a new phone will come out that crushes the HD2 in specs.

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I don't see this happening on this generation of hardware. More ram will be needed for each OS to have room to breath unless they are "cacheing" the OS's onto the SD card which at this time means 5min, at least, of wait time to switch between OS's. And isn't there an Android OS out now for some devices that runs VIA WM6.x…… it reboots and then runs from the SD card.

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