Thread: Hypervisor for N900 (and others)....would anyone be interested?
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davedickson is offline davedickson
2011-05-29 , 07:30
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Originally Posted by gazza_d View Post
vmware did demo a "hypervisor" on an N800 a few years ago where 2 or 3 mobile OSes were running concurrently, and you were able to switch between them. Basically multitasking for OSes. thread is here

This would be useful and cool, especially where there are different apps availablr on different platforms.
Sorry missed that thread completely! I did do a search before starting this thread and saw a few but not that one!

So if VMware were doing this 2/3 years ago, were is the progress and why wasn't this idea pushed back then, by the community?

Honestly I am missing a step here, is this actually too difficult to do, or do you need access to the closed source or something? Also I think your right to say "hypervisor", I don't really like using that term, so it should be in quotes.

It would be so useful as you say, and it looks like a few others from the thread would agree! Also the apps, another good reason to have multiple OS's is you don't have the sit around waiting for them to ported to your OS! Or try and do it yourself and fail

Also the commerial Vs end-user aspect was mentioned on that thread (as I mention on my initial post), I guess they won't let us get into the HV, its going to come pre-packaged on the devices, with guest OS's pre-installed. Balls.