The VMware mobile virtualization platform: Is that a hypervisor in your pocket?

Operating Systems Review (ACM)

Volumn 44, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 124-135

  Barr, Ken ^a   Bungale, Prashanth ^a   Newell, Craig ^a   Deasy, Stephen ^a   Tuch, Harvey ^a   Gyuris, Viktor ^a   Zoppis, Bruno ^a   Hung, Perry ^a  

^a VMWARE INC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPLICATION DEVELOPMENT; END-TO-END SOLUTIONS; HYPERVISOR; MOBILE PROCESSORS; PLATFORM VIRTUALIZATION; SMART-PHONES; STORAGE CAPACITY; SYSTEM ARCHITECTURES; VIRTUALIZATIONS;

LAPTOP COMPUTERS; PORTABLE EQUIPMENT;

MOBILE DEVICES;

EID: 78650729520     PISSN: 01635980     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1899928.1899945     Document Type: Article

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