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Originally Posted by davedickson View Post
Well it makes sense, having VMs is great on my laptop, to do just that type of thing, still with security in mind, but more about seperating work and personal stuff, like having bit torrent clients is a HUGE no no on our work machines, but having a VM skirts the issue. I can understand where they are coming from completely, I just hope they see the light and let us "end users" have a cut down free version, or maybe even open source (yeah, right). I would just hate to see the technology not be fully utilised and just used for commerical applications, this would be so useful for the end user as well as the IT dept.
Free versions to play with would be nice, but VmWare is a business and without competition nothings going to be free.

Originally Posted by davedickson View Post
lol so the general concensus is the hardware on the N900 (which is the best we have at the moment) isn't good enough to do what we want it to do, even with memory sharing/load balancing. If we do end up with decent hardware two or three devices down the line, do you think this is an area worth looking at again, or just stick with uboot/multiboot as the solution to multiple OS's?
I'd wager that smartphones will go through most of the history of the laptop at a much accelerated pace. Battery life is going to be primary limiting factor for a long time even if we get over the cpu performance limitations.
For the moment uboot is the answer. Soon... maybe by the year end, there should be first realistic forays into using VMs on smart phones - not just as a poc, but for real.
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