Trango Virtual Processors was founded in 2004 by Pierre Coulombeau and Fabrice Devaux as a subsidiary of ELSYS Design group. Trango's purpose was to develop a real-time mobile

hypervisor A hypervisor (also known as a virtual machine monitor, VMM, or virtualizer) is a type of computer software, firmware or hardware that creates and runs virtual machines. A computer on which a hypervisor runs one or more virtual machines is called ...

. It was acquired by

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in October 2008.

Products

Trango developed a mobile hypervisor that supported ARM architectures (ARMv5 and ARMv6) and

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s, and could run

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, and

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mobile operating systems, and a supporting integrated development environment (IDE). VMware rebranded Trango's product as the VMware Mobile Virtualization Platform, which was later renamed VMware Horizon Mobile.

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External links

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