First some background, then a question. Recently, due to my laptop becoming non-usable for mobile work, I've been taking much more advantage of my Android phone. Paired with a usb Lenovo compact thinkpad keyboard w/ track-point, and it's surprisingly very usable, the track point giving me a mouse courser and keyboard on a single USB-OTG connection. What I have found is that while you can almost use it as a desktop, it's clearly not, and you won't get the same efficiency of use. But it's led me thinking that this device is in many respects more powerful then my sub-notebook laptop (less the RAM). So the question. What have people done to run virtual machines on their Android phones? A few years ago I had tried out Limbo PC, which was a QEMU port to run x86 machines on your phone. You loose a lot of performance in the instruction set translation. I know the major Distro's have very robust ARM package sets at this point, so I'd look at running a native Linux in visualization. http://linuxonandroid.org/ This comes up in searches, but on the surface looks like their using a chroot method. Hmm... which I hadn't considered. -- Scott Sullivan