It is very interesting that vmware finally steps into the mobile world. The idea of Vmware on mobile devices came out year ago. Now this virtualization company brings up the idea into product which enables users to run more than one mobile operating systems on one physical mobile device. Designed for the Bring Your Own Device wave, the Vmware Mobile Virtualization platform comes out in the right time to free users from bringing two mobile phones, one for corporate use and the other for personal use.

I am quite confident of the technology vmware employs in this innovative product. However it is more likely to appeal to IT persons than end users.  Running several OS on one device, Vmware Mobile Virtualization Platform definitely harms the disply performance and user experiences. Busy end users will get frustrated on switching between operating systems, enduring the poor performance and frequent low battery. Not to say that this solution only support Android and possible will not work on Apple I guess.

The same problem occurs to Citrix Receiver, which virtualises remote desktops into mobile device interface. Business users often complains about long latency, difficulties to gesture, and frequest connection failures.

What the end users want, from my experience, is a real BYOD solution which seamless seperates personal and corporate datas in the backward layer, not a solution of two or more mobile operating systems. Vmware workstation solution can maximize hardware resources, whereas vmware mobile hardly tells the same success story because it runs exactly in end users hands. It certainly gives IT administrators easy ways of provisioning and revoking devices just like installing and uninstalling vmware images on desktops, however, for business users, the solution is apparently not smart enough.