Comments on: Android virtualization on TI OMAP4 processors (dual core Cortex-A9)

By: How I would make the Toshiba AC100 successful « sola's blog

How I would make the Toshiba AC100 successful « sola's blog — Mon, 09 May 2011 10:06:40 +0000

[…] OpenOffice or other decent desktop software. The paravirtualization developed by B-labs would be an instant solution for this problem and would future proof the machine for a possible Windows8 scenario […]

By: Bahadir Balban

Bahadir Balban — Fri, 08 Apr 2011 18:00:00 +0000

In reply to sola. We have a couple of Tegra2s and will support them in the short term. We are able to run Linux next to Android. In fact we are able to run up to 4 linux instances on quad core A9 (versatile express) though the device sharing requires a bit of non-generic tweaks. We run both guests on the device, though Motorola Atrix seems to be connecting to a remote machine via a networking application. How do you relate this technology to a baremetal solution like ours? Do you think they could be used in combination?

By: sola

sola — Fri, 08 Apr 2011 12:24:00 +0000

This is really awesome. It would be nice to know if their solution works on Tegra2 as well.

With this virtualization solution, Motorola-Atrix-type Webtop/Android combinations would be easy to create on any sufficiently powerful Tegra2/OMAP4 ….other dual-CortexA9 systems.

I believe something like this will be quite necessary for quad-core Cortex A9/A15 solutions which will obviously try to give both a desktop Linux AND an Android instance in parallel (the hw will be far too strong for Android alone).

A 4-core ARM system at 2Ghz with 2GB of RAM would be as strong as my 4 year old work-laptop (which I am still using day-to-day).

By: Daniel O'Neill

Daniel O'Neill — Tue, 05 Apr 2011 00:09:00 +0000

spielberg and clooney they ain’t, but as a geek, this movie really speaks to me.