It's happened: now you can have two phones in one!

[anon(10181084)]

So today I accidentally ran into an app called VMOS. It effectively runs Android 5.1.1 in a virtual machine on your phone that you can minimize at your own discretion like any other old app. Hitting your device's own back button also minimizes it, so to close it you have to remove it from the recent apps. Now the days of using a retired device as a "stealthphone" (my personal name for "secondary phone") are pretty much over. Works pretty nicely (although still a bit slow) on my S8, and runs pretty badly on my Galaxy Tab S3. It's biggest claim to fame is that it is supposed to let you run root apps without actually rooting your host Android device (I haven't tested this yet). I highly recommend it for any of you who might love tinkering with virtual machines.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.vmos.glb

 

[Merkitten]

Awesome! Whats your wife think of it?

 

[Rukbat]

Not ready for prime time yet (they should be working on 10.0 at this time) but I bookmarked it.

If's certainly a better answer than Knox.

@Merkitten, it's not really meant to hide "nefarious" activities but, as the page says, you can keep your business and your personal "phones" on the same phone, among other things.

 

[SpookDroid]

So how is this different from others like Parallel Space? Also, Android FIVE??!! Damn, why even bother when 3/4 of the Play Store wouldn't work on it (although they mention they do have a version with Android 9 'coming soon')?

 

[belodion]

^ Because fun.

 

[anon(10181084)]

Awesome! Whats your wife think of it?

I am 19 years old and NOT married.

 

[anon(10181084)]

So how is this different from others like Parallel Space? Also, Android FIVE??!! Damn, why even bother when 3/4 of the Play Store wouldn't work on it (although they mention they do have a version with Android 9 'coming soon')?

Well, for one it is good for running some (but not all) of the legacy apps that refuse to run on Pie. I actually asked them via e-mail to offer a multi-VM system with a choice of old and new Android versions including old CyangoenMod versions etc...

 

[anon(10181084)]

Well, VMOS let me do something totally crazy. Look at the picture. On the phone screen we have VMOS and inside that we are running AEMULA 486 emulator running Caldera DR-DOS with PC Player Benchmark. That is already 3 operating systems if you include the phone's Android 9. Then on the TV (via Samsung DeX) there is Windows XP in an unofficial optimized version of Bochs (albeit MicroXP which I further slimmed down using some included tools), Windows 98 SE in Limbo PC Emulator and Apple System 6 in the KEGS Apple IIgs emulator. Grand total of SIX OPERATING SYSTEMS ON ONE CELLPHONE. And the phone's DeX UI was still useable despite being left with only 384MB RAM.

 

[SpookDroid]

Most impressive. But will it blend? ??????

 

[anon(10181084)]

Most impressive. But will it blend? ������

If you want a video, here is one I made before adding System 6 and Win98. The audio is a bit muffled and weird sounding because I was recording with my tablet and the case on it covers the microphone.

https://youtu.be/eziHeqxGefY