clipped from www.redorbit.com VMware is seeking to bring its VMWare Mobile Virtualization Platform, or MVP,to smartphones and cell phones by next year.The platform uses a tiny, bare-metal 20-30KB hypervisor, and will allow nearly any mobile device based on an ARM processor to run multiple virtual machines.Hypervisors are the thin layer of software that makes virtualization possible.VMware, considered the leading supplier of x86 virtualization for server systems, announced the new MVP today and is using its October acquisition of Trango Virtual Processors to help bring the platform to the mobile handset market.The acquisition had been kept quiet prior to the announcement.There are currently only a few companies making virtual platforms for mobile devices. In addition to Trango, OK Labs and VirtualLogix are some of the other suppliers looking to create hypervisors that work with ARM-based mobile devices.

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