Run Linux containers on Android, no root required

7 comments

• Antitoxic6185 27 minutes ago
  tmux with proot distros exist though
• nullbyte808 1 hour ago
  Is it possible to get the reverse of this working? (Waydroid with play services on Linux phones, such as postmarketOS)
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• nixosbestos 1 hour ago
  I just want a folding portable monitor now. We're getting so close...
• figmert 2 hours ago
  This can probably be upstreamed into podman. Podman already has supports using a VM using podman machine (uses different tech under the hood depending on the OS). This seems like it can be yet another backend for it.
• ilsubyeega 3 hours ago
  curious is this just software qemu(not sure what word exactly was) instead of virtualization acceleration, probably more overheads?
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  • em500 2 hours ago
    Yes, under How It Works:

    > libqemu-system-aarch64.so (QEMU TCG, no KVM)

    TCG means software emulation

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    • kristianp 7 minutes ago
      I thought why is qemu used here? Why not use linux native namespaces and cgroups.
  • meltyness 2 hours ago
    https://github.com/ExTV/Podroid/blob/3f7d19dee63e24e0bd36c22... not sure
  • NewJazz 2 hours ago
    Itbsays it doesnt use kvm, so i thinj that meens no accel.
• TheRoque 2 hours ago
  With this I could in theory do all my work from my Android phone.
• ggm 1 hour ago
  And local FS access is mediated how?