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ddalex | # 21 | 2009-02-26, 09:05 | Report

Impressive feat by VMWare. I'd say they purposefully ommited Symbian and/or Maemo just to not bug Nokia about this. I'd pay right now to run Linux on my Symbian S60 phone.

lcuk | # 22 | 2009-02-26, 11:32 | Report

Originally Posted by qole View Post

I'm with Kozzi. That seemed suspiciously fast.

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.

qole,

that flash is very reminiscent of the glitches liqbase encounters on some machines on first run.
My bet, they would stop if you closed down vmware and restarted

I kept saying it was deep in hardware

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MP2100 | # 23 | 2009-02-26, 17:19 | Report

After watching the video, I think VMware is being a bit deceptive. She implies that this is VMware running on a mobile phone, and multitasking other mobile phone OS's. Most people will watch it and see a Nokia device and believe it is a phone. If they'd demo'd this on an N95, then the video would be more honest.

(But, it's still great for us. I love VMware on my laptop.)

qole | # 24 | 2009-02-26, 17:58 | Report

OK, so if this is real, and guys who are more in-the-know than I'll ever be say it probably is, then... I want it. So much it hurts.

It is at this point that a guy working for VMWare should show up on these forums and post a download link for us all to try.

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sjgadsby | # 25 | 2009-02-26, 18:18 | Report

Originally Posted by qole View Post

It is at this point that a guy working for VMWare should show up on these forums...

jyro may be the closest we have to that.

jutley | # 26 | 2009-02-26, 18:25 | Report

yes i agree if this really is out there give us a download and make this sofware a sucess we will test it for you and hey it has to be free

tekplay | # 27 | 2009-02-26, 18:36 | Report

Virtualization of 2 mini os's have been done by Xen on ARM more than 8 months ago.
http://wiki.xensource.com/xenwiki/XenARM

document here
http://wiki.xensource.com/xenwiki/Xe...Guide_v1+0.pdf

Now that we see that VMWare has jumped on the same platform it is wonderful news, though I doubt there will be a significant release till at least the end of year.

Virtual playgrounds are always nice

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lcuk | # 28 | 2009-02-26, 18:42 | Report

/me likes playgrounds.

qole | # 29 | 2009-02-26, 18:42 | Report

Originally Posted by sjgadsby View Post

jyro may be the closest we have to that.

You mean the guy who did the cool inkface stuff?

BoxOfSnoo | # 30 | 2009-02-26, 19:13 | Report

Originally Posted by jutley View Post

yes i agree if this really is out there give us a download and make this sofware a sucess we will test it for you and hey it has to be free

Good grief no. Commercial is fine! I'd prefer support + a product lifespan instead of abandonment ("I'm busy with my real job") and platitudes ("At least it's free!").

If you want developers to sink time into your platform, you have to make it worth their while. For a big player like VMWare, being popular in the forum isn't enough.

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