Run Both Windows and Android On Your Cellphone Using MVP Hypervisor

Apparently, you can run two OS on the same phone thanks to the MVP hypervisor developed by VMWare. In the video you can see a Nokia N800 running both Windows CE and Android  thanks to the MVP hypervisor which is a virtual machine that is supposed to run underneath a cellphone’s OS. The MVP hypervisor is as small as 20KB and it creates a platform on each device that it’s installed on which allows the OSes to be installed like applications.

Even cooler is that the MVP hypervisor will not create incompatibility issues with the drivers, therefore it can run multiple OSes on a device at the same time. Although Windows CE is not entirely an OS, and Nokia N800 isn’t entirely a cellphone, you can notice in the video above that the MVP was specially designed for smartphones.

According to VMWare, this virtual machine could be introduced in mobile phones pretty soon as they are already in talks with multiple manufacturers. However, I’m not really sure that the MVP hypervisor will be included in cellphones as a phone manufacturers are not likely to pay the license of this technology. I guess it remains to see what happens, meanwhile check out the video above.