I'd rather see VMWare on an N800/N810, running Maemo and Android simultaneously.
And, more than that, I'd rather see an N97 doing it. That would be quite cool.
(as long as I'm dreaming... an N97 scaled up to N810 screen size, 5 row keyboard, dpad and android's 5 buttons on the face, dual SIM slots, quadband GSM, able to do both AT&T and T-Mobile 3G, long battery life, and running Maemo and Android)
I suspect trickery... Look at the last screen in the video, where the earth is spinning in Android. The screen is refreshing strangely; there's some kind of brief flash every so often. Perhaps there's more VNC than VMWare in that N800.
It's not clear to me what VMWare is running on. Is it good ol' Maemo 4.1 or what?
It's not clear to me what VMWare is running on. Is it good ol' Maemo 4.1 or what?
When VMware says "bare metal solution" they are referring to their own highly customized and trimmed down version of Linux. It is the "hypervisor" and runs directly on the hardware. No other OS running beneath it, just like their ESX product. It would have to be flashed into the unit.
As to the flickering in the screen, that is probably the video driver trying to share the display as CE tries to replot at the same time the globe is spinning. I would expect video to suffer if both screens are displaying simultaneously. (then again, that is an alpha release driver, no doubt)
As to the demo itself, you will note that the CE machine is basically doing extremely little (as noted by the CPU meters). I'd guess that spinning that globe was sucking down almost all the CPU time (again, as noted by the CPU meter).
I'm pretty sure they're targeting this as more of a switching mechanism, but with the side benefit that the "background" OS can still continue to process ... but at a degraded speed.
On the other hand, I know VMware, and as soon as you stop doing CPU intensive tasks on the "foreground" OS, the "background" OS will start taking as many cycles as you let loose of, if it needs them. VMware does the CPU load balancing, so this is not fakery, just some very good and fast low-level programming by VMware.
Lets not forget this software is not targeted at the end user.
What? From what I see, the whole point is that you can run your "business OS" with your "personal OS". Obviously they are not going to give us the software like on the desktop, but it is still targeted to the end user.
IMO, why the hell would you need a separate OS for business and personal, unless you are very concerned about security.
