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#107
Originally Posted by bchliu View Post
Err.. you realise the overhead of virtualisation is probably a bit taxing for the poor old N900 with 256MB of RAM and "only" a 600Mhz processor?
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The only levels of virtualisation that exists on N900 at the moment properly are the side-by-side stuff that doesnt run as an abstraction space like Easy Debian and Preenv. They both use the same underlying architecture and shared with a guest OS - more like an additional set of libraries on top of Maemo.

Until Nokia releases something better (Dual core, 1GB+ RAM) then theres very little to no hope of using virtualisation as such - hence why VMWare even dropped their mobile virtualisation project for Maemo.
Virtualization has existed for many, many years before there even were 600Mhz processors or 256MB RAM. And there are plenty of virtualization solutions on Maemo already. You name two, then there's virtualbox, more emulators, easyMer and what not. Yes, it would be best if you could have direct access to hardware - but this is a linux box. If EasyDeb is possible, EasySym is possible. It was exactly because of EasyDeb that I mention virtualization.
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