YouTube – VMware demo showing two operating systems running on the N800

Posted on 26 February 2009, Last updated on 11 November 2019 by

Here’s a video that will get you thinking! Android and Windows CE on a nokia N800. The story comes from ITPro where you’ll find a lot more info. Apparently it’s not a product at the moment but it’s in the evaluation stage. My first question is, can you install an X86 virtual container and load XP on it? I doubt it, but even so, Android and Maemo on one device would be awesome.

YouTube – VMware demo showing two operating systems running on one phone.

12 Comments For This Post

  1. Steve 'Chippy' Paine says:

    YouTube – VMware demo showing two operating systems running on the N800 http://www.umpcportal.com/?p=5942

  2. John says:

    I posted on internettablettalk’s forums yesterday that I’d love to see an N97 running VMWare with Maemo and Android. And even better would be an N97 scaled up to the size of an N810. That’d be about the most perfect phone ever, IMO.

  3. turn.self.off says:

    i know someone got win95 running in dosbox.

    or was it win3.11?

  4. igrec says:

    also take a look at Citrix “prototype” software – XenApp for the iPhone : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bKRqLEI9ZKI

  5. theluketaylor says:

    “can you install an X86 virtual container and load XP on it?”

    Short answer: no.

    Long answer: vmware doesn’t do emulation. They do virtualization. The difference is an emulator is capable of running non-native instructions by translating them into something the processor can handle, generally at a hefty performance cost. Virtualization uses a hypervisor to share the CPU between 2 or more operating systems without either knowing something else exists on the system.

  6. chippy says:

    Thanks Theluketaylor.
    I suspected so that it wouldnt work.
    Steve

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  8. スナネズミ says:

    日々進化するネズミw http://tinyurl.com/dghosq

  9. EC says:

    How about Win95 on a Nokia N82
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZngrzFzMVqQ

  10. EC says:

    Now how about Win98 on Nokia N95?

    http://i.gizmodo.com/5164615/windows-98-now-runs-on-the-nokia-n95

  11. EC says:

    Like I’ve been saying for a while now, I feel these “non UMPCs”, be it a Nokia internet tablet or smart phone or whatever, will be able to do the things we as of now have to rely on “real XP/Vista UMPCs” for sooner than any UMPC/MID will be pocketable and “all-day-battery capable” with either in the cloud solutions or like here by virtual machine solutions!

  12. Wes Novack says:

    @onb @rockybanzai check this! VMWare demo on a phone! http://tinyurl.com/dghosq via @surbahns (thx!)

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