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Remote mobile virtualization
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<p>Remote mobile virtualization, like its counterpart <a href="/facts/Desktop_virtualization/mCcGm6hL">desktop virtualization</a>, is a technology that separates <a href="/facts/Operating_systems/8XTuvMh2">operating systems</a> and <a href="/facts/Application_software/YQuj7Kog">applications</a> from the client devices that access them. However, while desktop virtualization allows users to remotely access Windows desktops and applications, remote mobile virtualization offers remote access to mobile operating systems such as <a href="/facts/Android_(operating_system)/nNyHb0xz">Android</a>. </p><p>Remote mobile virtualization encompasses both full operating system virtualization, referred to as virtual mobile infrastructure (VMI), and user and application virtualization, termed mobile app virtualization. Remote mobile virtualization allows a user to remotely control an Android <a href="/facts/Virtual_machine/BLevU3sx">virtual machine</a> (VM) or application. Users can access remotely hosted applications with HTML5-enabled web browsers or thin client applications from a variety of smartphones, tablets and computers, including Apple iOS, Mac OS, Blackberry, Windows Phone, Windows desktop, and Firefox OS devices. </p>