On Mon, Sep 01, 2008 at 02:50:59PM +0100, Javad Ayaz wrote: > sticking with this topic i want to ask a question...can i install a windows > app on windows mobile i.e Virtualbox, and then install a ubuntu mobile > version on that? and do a dual boot ...a bit like my pc..i could boot ubuntu > of a memory card..... > > Apologies to everyone for repeating the same old question!! >
Short answer: no. "Windows mobile" and "Windows XP/Vista" are completely different code bases. Marketing is what links them. It is a similar situation to Windows XP vs ubuntu: apps have to have different calls to interact with the OS. There might be x86 emulators for Windows mobile but I doubt they'd have the performance to run ubuntu as they will have to do full CPU emulation, which is going to be very slow on an embedded CPU*. It might be possible to build a virtualisation app that would let you run ubuntu compiled for the CPU architecture in the device with reasonable performance but that is likely to be a big undertaking. Robert * Don't read clock rates for embedded processors and think performance will be comparable to a desktop processor with that clock rate. Embedded chips tend to use simpler instructions so you get a smaller chunk of work for each clock tick, they have simpler branch prediction so are wrong more often, and tend to have less parallelism in the hardware to save power. The lower performance is to let the battery last more than the few minutes it could power a desktop CPU. ________________________________________________________ Robert McWilliam [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.ormiret.com "In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move." -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/