Just two weeks ago VMware announced the acquisition of Trango Virtual Processors, a startup focused on the so called embedded virtualization.
VMware announced that the Trango technology will be used to power a new Mobile Virtualization Platform (MVP) without adding further details.
Now something about the timeline emerges: Reseller News published an article quoting Srinivas Krishnamurti, Director of Product Management and Market Development at VMware, who said:
…Two years ago we looked at the mobile phone market as the next frontier, and we wanted to build a hypervisor on a mobile device. These phones are no longer a communication device, but a computation device …
We don’t expect people to go to our website and download it … We’re speaking with a number of handset and carriers about proof-of-concept right now…
The products should arrive in around 12 to 18 months…