What if? VDI and Mobile Phone Virtualization
June 20th, 2008 | 
Author: Businessweek.com reported back in April about how VirtualLogix’s Peter Richards is building a virtualization layer for mobile phones. Virtualization Goes Mobile explains that just like virtualization for the computer, a phone could use virtualization software to simultaneously host multiple operating systems such as RIMM, Symbian, Windows Mobile, or Google Android. Assuming VirtualLogix can work out each individual operating system’s dependencies on their current physical hardware device (qwerty keyboard, touch screens, etc.), imagine finally being able to have just one smart phone on your belt.
So, while we’re fantasizing about the possibility let’s not stop there.
If you can manufacture a phone that has enough horsepower to be a virtualization host, then couldn’t you develop a hardware device that when you cradle or dock at your desk it is connected to a USB keyboard and LCD monitor too? There are already RDP and VNC clients for today’s mobile phones and PDAs, and many phones are already using a wireless network connection when available. An even better idea is to make your smart phone a thin client and use Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) to connect to the hosted desktop in your data center.
Maybe it’s too unsettling to toss your notebook along with the other devices that this solution could consolidate, but that would certainly make trips through airports easier and be a welcomed change for my back! I’m sure you can imagine other advantages.
Can you hear me now? … Good!
Sys-con.com announced this week VirtualLogix will present on this topic at next week’s Virtualization Conference & Expo. If you are attending and can make this session let me know. I wish I could be there!
I also wrote a similar themed post titled Can my Blackberry ever replace my wallet? on my personal blog. What can I say? The idea of the smart phone evolving into the consolidated answer for everything is interesting to me.
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