Food for thought: Virtual Machine Andriod App

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Given the phones are getting more and more powerful and the Atrix comes with a unique laptop dock; Imagine a VM application on Atrix that powers the laptop dock and runs a stripped version of Ubuntu or any lite OS?

If more manufacturers follow direction, these shells may be the future.

Or am I just day dreaming.

Discuss.

http://downloadsquad.switched.com/20...irtualization/

Phone hardware has very limited performance. And running anything through a virtual machine = performance penalty. Try running VM on a netbook and you will see.

Webtop is not a virual machine btw.

It would take a performance hit no doubt. How much would probably depend on how different the guest OS is from the host OS. Windows 7 would probably be brutally slow, but an Android OS inside Android might not be too bad (e.g. Bionic with it's webtop running on an Atrix).

A phone built from the ground up with an embedded hypervisor would be pretty cool.

Edit: i guess the xda ap does not do qoutes? In any case, the below is in response to whether the webtop is a vm or not...

No, webtop is not a VM but actually running on top of the linux kernel directly. But the entire interface on-phone (ie, the android OS) is a vm, per my understanding. Also, the "mobile view" of the phone when in the lapdock mode is just windowing the VM with a few extra features as far as I can tell.

Interesting side point, I got to watch my phone go through its random reboot the other day while still using* the webtop on the lapdock. Even wireless stayed active as far as I could tell.

*Using is a relative term... the usual slugishness of Firefox ground mostly to a halt while the android UI rebooted. I did successfully switch a tab during the three minute process though.

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