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

The virtualization of mobile devices such as smartphones, tablets, netbooks, and MIDs offers significant potential in addressing the mobile manageability, security, cost, compliance, application development and deployment challenges that exist in the enterprise today. Advances in mobile processor performance, memory and storage capacities have led to the availability of many of the virtualization techniques that have previously been applied in the desktop and server domains. Leveraging these opportunities, VMware's Mobile Virtualization Platform (MVP) makes use of system virtualization to deliver an end-to-end solution for facilitating employee-owned mobile phones in the enterprise. In this paper we describe the use case behind MVP, and provide an overview of the hypervisor's design and implementation. We present a novel system architecture for mobile virtualization and describe key aspects of both core and platform virtualization on mobile devices