At this week’s VMworld Europe 2009 conference in Cannes, VMware execs took the stage to demonstrate how the company’s mobile hypervisor technology can let users run Windows CE 6.0 and Android on the same mobile device. In this case, the device was a Nokia N800 internet tablet, and it took advantage of the company’s Mobile Virtualization Platform (MVP), announced in early November, to squeeze the two competing mobile OSes onto the same ARM-based device.
UK-based IT PRO Magazine was there and captured some video of the device in action, and from a performance perspective the OSes look usable but not exactly spectacular. My guess is that a combination of software tweaking and better hardware would turn this from a single into a triple, and possibly even a home run.
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