VMs will make the world go round

Had someone at work complain that when he goes on business trips, he hates taking two devices, that is a work device (laptop) and a personal device (also a laptop in this case). He wished he could take the work laptop and use a VM on that device as a personal device. He was talking about wanting things like hulu and his personal finances to be kept off his work device. Very interesting idea.

This made me wonder about carrying a device on a plane in the first place. I want to have a generic device where I’m going and just upload my personal and work VMs to it. The device would have to be secure and not allow my information including keystrokes and web travels to be allowed to remain on the device or be captured elsewhere while on the guest network.

You could also pass the VMs from one personal device to another. Run the same VM with the same settings on your TV and phone. Have backups. Upgrade devices painlessly. Companies could switch off an employee’s VM when they leave the company. If a device is stolen, the VM could be set to erase itself without too many headaches for the employee. You could ship a device to a destination and not download your VM until you got there. You could ship blank devices to remote locations if need be.

There would be limits based on the host device of course. If you are in a backwater somewhere, the apps would not be able to stream the same. That kind of thing could be worked out. I’m trying to think of other limitations based on device. Interfaces would have to be different. This whole idea of one interface to rule them all is BS. What works best is to detect what kind of device you are on and making adjustments on the fly. That is happening with Windows 10.