Whats this I hear about Win XP running on my android!?

**briandearing** · 02-03-2012, 10:53 PM

I was bored at work the other day and came across people saying that they were able to dual boot with windows xp. Anybody have any information or links or any info on this? I've been googleing for like an hour now and still couldn't fine instruction on this. Any info is appreciated!

**shiftr182** · 02-04-2012, 10:42 AM

No dual boot with windows for this phone. I dont even know if it would be possible since android is linux based. The drivers and everything would have to be built from nothing, and we are having a hard enough time getting the drivers built for AOSP.

**wase4711** · 02-05-2012, 10:15 AM

Originally Posted by briandearing

I was bored at work the other day and came across people saying that they were able to dual boot with windows xp. Anybody have any information or links or any info on this? I've been googleing for like an hour now and still couldn't fine instruction on this. Any info is appreciated!

Lesson #1
Don't believe anything you read on the Internet...

**briandearing** · 02-05-2012, 01:56 PM

after looking through my phones browsers history, I found it. It was for an Evo 3d though.

**Tripsyk** · 02-06-2012, 10:45 AM

How would you run PC based programs on a linux based kernel?

**gregg37** · 02-07-2012, 06:46 AM

Even if you could... Why would you want to?

**briandearing** · 02-07-2012, 03:24 PM

Originally Posted by gregg37

Even if you could... Why would you want to?

Many reasons. First one that came to mind was to use it as a laptop replacement. Could bluetooth a keyboard and mouse. To take notes in class. Install steam and play TF2 and counterstrike

**porpherion** · 02-08-2012, 10:17 AM

Originally Posted by briandearing

Install steam and play TF2 and counterstrike

I don't know If I'd go that far.

As far as how you would run x86 on a linux-based device, well, it's linux based. Which, in theory, would mean an emulator similar to WINE, or even an android port of WINE, would be possible. It wouldn't be any more different in its concept than any other emulator on android, though I would think it would have to be sd based (due to the size the emulator would have to be to include windows libraries, and the size of the windows image in use), and you would either have to boot it from a terminal or have a bootstrapper that could read the emulator from the SD card.