[Q] running virtual machines ? - Acer Iconia A500

Hi, do you know if it would be possible (and how) to run some virtual machines (Wndows or Linux) on Android, so we could use such freewares as OpenOffice ?
Thanks
Nico

Windows: No (maybe windows 8 when it comes out)
Linux: Yes

I know vmware is working on something to run different phone oses on the same device. Uses Android as the host is.
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What operating system do you use???

basically i want to know if you use windows, mac, or linux, and why you use that OS, and also how many people have yet to root their phone because it seems too complicated. i am currently working on a script runable in linux and soon to be runable in windows that will automatically root your phone for you. all you will need to do is run the command, hit enter a few times, set up a setting in anycut(which will be installed on the phone after flashing to RC29) and walk away, or you can sit there and stare at it if you want.
but since i know there are those three main OS's i wanted to know if i should continue trying to get this automated and running in all three operating systems.
I use all of the above so I can't vote. And technically if you own an Android phone you're using Linux.
Ron Overdrive said:
I use all of the above so I can't vote. And technically if you own an Android phone you're using Linux.
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Well which do you use to do work on your phone? And I know by using android you are using linux which is why I made sure to say "on your main computer" I use linux to work on my phones, but I can use windows on my friend's comp
tubaking182 said:
Well which do you use to do work on your phone? And I know by using android you are using linux which is why I made sure to say "on your main computer" I use linux to work on my phones, but I can use windows on my friend's comp
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Lately I've been using Windows 7 since I'm giving it a go to see if I want to return to Windows or not after the Vista blunder.
Honestly though I'd make an OS independent way of doing it to simplify it. Like make it in Java, Python, or in Mono so it'll be one app for all 3 OS's.
Why did you say "M$" in the poll option and not "Microsoft". I thought bagging Microsoft for no good reason stopped being cool 5 years ago?
because up until recently if you were to try and get ahold of a copy of XP an older and "obsolete" operating system they charged nuch more than they charged you for a copy of the crappy vista that the deemed perfect. the company will do anything to make more money than they chould be making, they overcharge for everything and quite frankly i would rag on mac too but it has been a long time since i touched a mac. these days i don't pay for a thing when it comes to my computer software, if there is not a free alternative then i don't need the program. software companies charge an arm and a leg for their software and then they whine and cry that people are pirating it. take a look at photoshop. over 60% of the copies of photoshop that are installed on computers nationwide are pirated copies, and is it any wonder? adobe wants to charge nearly $900 for a piece of intangible software, i'll stick with gimp
I've got an old iMac I still use (OS 9.2), and my main pc is quad boot (XP Pro, Vista, 7, and Unbuntu), and my netbook is dual boot from the hard drive (XP Pro & Vista) and I've got persistant install of Ubuntu on an sdhc card, and a live install of GOS on an sd card.
So I think there should be an option of "All of the above".
Linux here as a desktop OS since the times of Slackware 9.1
Windows XP for commercial development (C# )
I am giving Windows 7 a try too
Work: WinXP
Home: Win7 Beta
Laptop: Currently XP, switching to Ubuntu or some other linux flavor this weekend.
I primarily use Windows because i'm more of a PC Gamer than console. I'd most likely switch completely to Linux >IF< the game industry went full throtle into Linux development. Not talking about a Windows Emulator on linux to run windows games, but coding games natively for Linux.
I think this is a great Idea. I've rooted my phone to get themes and auto-rotation and the updated APN Radio stuff on it. Showed it to some of my friends and they want to root as well, but want me to do it for them cause they are nervous. I tried explaining that if they just follow the step by step instructions, they will be fine. So this will certainly make things easier for them.
tubaking182 said:
basically i want to know if you use windows, mac, or linux, and why you use that OS, and also how many people have yet to root their phone because it seems too complicated. i am currently working on a script runable in linux and soon to be runable in windows that will automatically root your phone for you. all you will need to do is run the command, hit enter a few times, set up a setting in anycut(which will be installed on the phone after flashing to RC29) and walk away, or you can sit there and stare at it if you want.
but since i know there are those three main OS's i wanted to know if i should continue trying to get this automated and running in all three operating systems.
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ASUS G1Sn: Dual Boot Vista and Ubuntu, Vista will be replaced when win7 is final
Asus eeepc 1000H dual boot: Windows 7 Beta 1 and XP
I use Vista mainly because Its not that bad despite some of its problems. A few registry tweaks, scratch that a LOT of registry tweaks go a long way Looking forward to windows 7! I like the freedom with Linux but I don't have the time needed to tinker with it and its a hassle. Hackintosh was alright when I used it, mac os is meh. mac hardware is sexy though. Gimme hardware and keep your OS apple ^^
windows vista on my laptop and windows XP at work.
i rooted to JF 1.42 RC33 but i fumbled my way through...i'm sure anyone with equal or lower "skillz" as me would greatly appreciate the automated root.
thx!
hellbringer626 said:
Hackintosh was alright when I used it, mac os is meh. mac hardware is sexy though. Gimme hardware and keep your OS apple ^^
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Heh, I'm the opposite. Mac hardware only looks good, but underneath its poorly put together and the designs are flawed. I can build a decent looking hackintosh that looks just as good. The OS, however, has a lot of potential assuming Apple allows people to customize their experience without hacking the OS to install a theme and stops locking it into their crappy hardware setup. After all its a heavily commercialized BSD hybrid that makes some things much easier.
MoridinBG said:
Linux here as a desktop OS since the times of Slackware 9.1
Windows XP for commercial development (C# )
I am giving Windows 7 a try too
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I take it what you're doing doesn't work with MONO (it supports up to C# 3.0)? I know people who do C# development work on Mac OS X thanks to MONO.
It cannot be categorized into one vote I need two.
Yeah I know it sucks but I have to have at least one machine with Windows because I am a gamer and until the day that Linux has the same level of 3D application/Gaming support I will always need windows.
Though for everything else I'm either testing the Kubuntu 9.04 Alpha or using Kubuntu 8.10.
I use Mac and the only thing I haven't been able to do with it is format my sd to EXT2, so I end up using my Vista In Parallels. Now, Does anybody knows why in my Mac shows ext2 as one of the format options but doesn't seems to work right
My Labtop Has Windows Vista and Ubuntu
And My Two Desktops Have Windows XP
Dual booted with Vista Ultimate x64 and Ubuntu.
Dual boot with Fedora 10 & Windows XP sp3
Windows xp gets used once in a blue moon to play a game. Most of the main windows applications I used can be run in wine these days. Everything else is vastly easier to do in linux.
I run XP at work, and Tri-boot of Vista/Win7/Ubuntu at home.
I would have thought that if you can't understand how to root your G1...you really don't need to root it in the first place??
I run almost exclusively Ubuntu Jaunty 9.04 on at least 5 machines (6 if you count the ps3 in). I run no dual boot but I have XP post SP3 in Virtualbox on my main machine for my bank but I will solve that later as the bank officially now supports Ubuntu but my current certificate is incompatible.
I run Ubuntu because I don't get any problem with viruses, trojans, malware, spyware and clogged registry. I also run Ubuntu because almost everything can be done from the command line. You can mod almost all parts of Ubuntu including Linux. It's free and I can make the modifications I want to the source code. Some applications and drivers are proprietary which can be a pain but that's how the current state is and usually you don't need so many proprietary parts. There are many free apps available via apt-get, both using official repository, ppa:s and external repositories. I find Linux distributions more modular than Windows. There's less problem with unsupported old hardware like in newer editions of Windows. Canon and HP skipped Vista support for both our scanner and printer. Only the basic features of the printer worked. In Ubuntu I get a lot more information from the printer with CUPS than with Vista and the inbuilt driver. The scanner was impossible to make work on x64 Vista. x86 worked but it was an ugly driver hack with the old xp driver and not optimal. Most hardware drivers for old components are built in into Linux.
I've tried Vista many times and it has not met my expectations of a good OS. My latest TX tablet crashed while I finished the configuration and went to burn the recovery discs. I tested ram and the harddrive and there were no problems. After running Ubuntu on that machine for quite a while I consider it stable. My previous TX computer had similar problems. The lack of drivers for old hardware, the lack of a good CLI and the need for all the protection makes me look elsewhere. Windows 7 is looking a lot better but It's far from what I want to use. I tried powershell and I just wanted to get out of there quickly. I've used MAC OSX including 10.1, 10.4 and 10.5 and I like it a lot. Unfortunately as you may have understood OSX is exclusively made for MAC:s. It runs on many x86/x86_64 pc:s but often there is always something not running properly.
If Apple would make OSX available for PC:s with BIOS (which they most likely won't because then they wouldn't sell as many MAC:s) I would use it. The Ubuntu GUI is good if you change the theme but Aqua on OSX is much better.
I think we are heading more towards cloud based OS:S / webOS:s /online-OS:s.
Sorry for the rant. I just felt like writing.
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VirtualWM

Hi All,
I have been looking for an application for Windows Mobile like we have for our PC's/Laptops. I am talking about a software like VirtualPC (VPC), VirtualBox (VBOX) and VMware (VirtualMachine).
If there is a VirtualWM (VWM) so we can run any ROM we desire on our phones ie on the HTC Touch HD.
On my PC I am using Windows Vista but in that Vista I am running Windows XP (another operating system, it is a virtual computer that looks and acts like the real thing).
With VWM, we could run multiple ROMS etc!
Has anyone thought of this or found any applications like that?
This is a video on VBOX for those who don't know what a Virtual Machine is
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jHqM5q-vsMs
dataSaMm said:
Hi All,
I have been looking for an application for Windows Mobile like we have for our PC's/Laptops. I am talking about a software like VirtualPC (VPC), VirtualBox (VBOX) and VMware (VirtualMachine).
If there is a VirtualWM (VWM) so we can run any ROM we desire on our phones ie on the HTC Touch HD.
On my PC I am using Windows Vista but in that Vista I am running Windows XP (another operating system, it is a virtual computer that looks and acts like the real thing).
With VWM, we could run multiple ROMS etc!
Has anyone thought of this or found any applications like that?
This is a video on VBOX for those who don't know what a Virtual Machine is
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jHqM5q-vsMs
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Only Microsoft Mobile Device emulator is available for pc as a "Virtual Machine" for WM but you can't run Cooked images only the default MS Winmo Image.
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/...1E-C093-4B15-AB0C-A2CE5BFFDB47&displaylang=en
There is a thread here in XDA about running custom roms in Emulator but it only could run modified MS deafult image if I am right.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=411154
dataSaMm said:
Hi All,
I have been looking for an application for Windows Mobile like we have for our PC's/Laptops. I am talking about a software like VirtualPC (VPC), VirtualBox (VBOX) and VMware (VirtualMachine).
If there is a VirtualWM (VWM) so we can run any ROM we desire on our phones ie on the HTC Touch HD.
On my PC I am using Windows Vista but in that Vista I am running Windows XP (another operating system, it is a virtual computer that looks and acts like the real thing).
With VWM, we could run multiple ROMS etc!
Has anyone thought of this or found any applications like that?
This is a video on VBOX for those who don't know what a Virtual Machine is
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jHqM5q-vsMs
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vmware seem to be working on this
I think it was demo'd at vmworld, February
http://www.vmware.com/technology/mobile/
I'm waiting for this to play with too

[Q] VM for android?

Hi all,
Anyone know if you can run VM over android. I heard somewhere that it will be soon possible to run VMwhare over android.
Regards,
Bastospn
do you mean the VMWare client, right?
Yes. I know that for a 512 MB it could be a bit odd, but in theory it should be possible.
They are working on a remote client that can run on android, but if you are dreaming about a working virtual machine that can run over an arm processor, keep dreaming
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I don't see way not. I know for most people VMs are just for big servers but it could make sense in mobile world too.
_http://droidpolice.com/lg-and-virtual-vmware-environments-bringing-to-android-video/
Regards,
Bastospn
Years ago I have seen a x86 virtual machine written entirely in java running windos xp on a nikia comunicator: the only drawback is performance that was stated to be 30% of processor power available to the guest operating system ( keep in mind what is the speed of a cellphone processor). This makes it theoretically possible, but on the other side you have to increase system resources in order to run an extra os environment that can be usable, and more resources mean higher price
About your link lg is only working to create an android virtual machine in order to have an isolated enterprise environment on the phone, and not a fully working virtual machine host for others OSes
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The best OS for the transformer Wndows NT - Reactos

Maybe it will soon be possible to run android and windows nt nativly at the same time on the Transformer !
how? - ReactOS:
http://www.reactos.org/ (if you are going to test it in a virtual machine dont' use the 0.3.14 version of os, use the trunk build version its much much much better)
ReactOS is an open source windows clone and most of the windows applications work on it ! (MS office, opera, ff, ...) the good news is there is an ARM port of ReactOS - Windows RT equivalent:
http://www.reactos.org/wiki/ARM_Port
ReactOS still has problems to work on real hardware because of many different components but on some PC it works very well (it can be targeted to work on a platform and fix the bugs)
The ARM port is able to run on the transformer but there is still a lot of work to do.
Windows will soon release a Office ARM version for winRT and in order to run any windows application on the transformer a recompile is needed.
and about android there is already a port of android that runs native on windowsne emulation no virtual machine !!)
http://mobile.slashdot.org/story/13...utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed
If anyone has any coding skills it would be nice to try to port reactos to the transformer or just to donate to the project with the subject "arm port for transformer"
cool, thanks for sharing Cruonit

EMacs, c++, Android and Widows?

Is there a simple way to start writing small c++ programs for Android using EMacs on a computer running Windows 7 or 8?
I've used EMacs alot in the past, but mainly on Linux-based systems using g++ as compiler.
EMacs for windows should be available, though I haven't tried it since my old WinXP computer was retired. Does anyone know if g++ works for Widows-based computers to compile programs for Android?
\Gwerain
Gwerain said:
Is there a simple way to start writing small c++ programs for Android using EMacs on a computer running Windows 7 or 8?
I've used EMacs alot in the past, but mainly on Linux-based systems using g++ as compiler.
EMacs for windows should be available, though I haven't tried it since my old WinXP computer was retired. Does anyone know if g++ works for Widows-based computers to compile programs for Android?
\Gwerain
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By now you might have answered this but.... Just in case, XDA Member @Zeuscluts has a guide on his page here
El_Dark said:
By now you might have answered this but.... Just in case, XDA Member @Zeuscluts has a guide on his page here
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Just ask for help if u Stuck in the setting up
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