Re: opensource application that may allow us to run windows applications on the n900
 

windows 7 can run on a older computer with lower specs than this phone i saw something on tome hardware a pentuim II and theres a video on youtube of it running on a 600mhz computer

Re: opensource application that may allow us to run windows applications on the n900
 

Check out
http://www.vmware.com/products/mobile/features.html

Re: opensource application that may allow us to run windows applications on the n900
 

True, but Windows is written for x86.
The N900 has an ARM processor, so its 600 MHz won't mean much when emulating x86.

Re: opensource application that may allow us to run windows applications on the n900
 

What about the "Wine is not an emulator" stuff?

Re: opensource application that may allow us to run windows applications on the n900
 

This really shows a complete lack of understanding of the work invovled! The Pentium chip is the same instruction set in hardware (allbeit a subset) whereas the Cortex in the N900 is totally different architecture let alone instruction set! Emmulation of pcode instructions in software is horrifically slow in comparison. Processor clock speed is not a sensible comparison except within processors of the same class!

Re: opensource application that may allow us to run windows applications on the n900
 

If you look at my post you'll note I said "wine+patched qemu".

The plan would be not to run wine entirely under qemu (good luck; and the performance will suck), but patch the wine native executable loader to use this modified qemu (thus the actual wine code being _arm_, and thus the reason an arm-building wine is needed).

Re: opensource application that may allow us to run windows applications on the n900
 

Wait for a MeeGo device that runs on x86... then there's a higher chance that we'll get something useable in this dept.

Re: opensource application that may allow us to run windows applications on the n900
 

Looks like VMware MVP (previously know as Trango) only uses 20kb of memory on the old nokia tablets...

I wonder if there is an old copy floating about on the web from the Trango days which we could get it to work on the N900...

I have been able to track then down under the previous website here... I'm continue my search...:cool:

Re: opensource application that may allow us to run windows applications on the n900
 

Virtual Machine managers do not emmulate hardware instructions. You can still only run programmes that the underlying chipset understands.

Re: opensource application that may allow us to run windows applications on the n900
 

Two words: Abstraction Layers.