Virtualbox Port For Pandora?


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Is it possible to make a a VirtualBox port for Pandora? Probaly emulate Windows Mobile or Windows CE through it? I also know that VirtualBox is only x86/x64 compatible. But maybe someone can make an ARM port of VirtualBox?

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*sigh*
That would be like porting an x86 assembler to ARM, to assemble ARM code. It doesn't make sense. You'd be better off writing a virtualizer from scratch than porting VirtualBox.
 
You've just answered your own question there. Virtual box is only x86 compatible.
This is because it "virtualises" the machine, running the x86 code on the x86 processor. Obviously with an arm processor it can't do that and would take a huge amount of power to emulate it instead.
 
In theory, an Arm version could be made that would virtualise the Arm CPU, to allow other Arm OS's to run such as PocketPC, (I think that's what the OP was getting at), but it'd take a lot of work to get going
 
P-J said:
What the hell are you hoping to run in Virtualbox on a bloody Pandora?

Jesus wept.
I think he's hoping to run Windows Mobile apps (see my previous post)

This is far less insane idea than trying to run x86 windows apps
 
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I think it's much more feasible to try to make a kqemu for arm, although even that is a bit far-fetched.
 
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