or in other words,I would like to know if I can install and run Android with LXC on the samsung arm chromebook without installing ubuntu touch,but only LXC....can I do it ?
2013/12/11, Mario <[email protected]>: > Do you know if I can install Ubuntu Touch on the Samsung and Google > ARM chromebook ? My goal is to "virtualize" Android on this > netbook,since actually I have installed ubuntu on it. Thanks. > > 2013/12/11, Stéphane Graber <[email protected]>: >> LXC on Android requires the same kernel features as on any other Linux >> system. >> >> The best way of finding what you are missing is to grab your current >> kernel config either from the git branch that was used to build it or >> from /proc/config.gz if available, then feed that to lxc-checkconfig >> which will list any missing feature. >> >> If you are missing some critical bits (the common ones I found being >> missing namespace and cgroup support), you'll need to grab the source of >> your current kernel, enable all the missing options, re-run >> lxc-checkconfig against the resulting config to check it's good, then >> build the kernel, build the modules (if needed, not all Android kernels >> come with modules support) and possibly rebuild some out of tree binary >> wrappers (radio/wifi/bluetooth/...). >> >> Once that's all done, you'll need to write the resulting image back to >> the device which tends to be device specific. For fastboot devices, that >> usually involves extracing the boot partition, unpacking it with >> abootimg, updating the kernel and pushing the resulting image back to >> the device. >> >> >> I'm well aware that this doesn't look particularly user friendly, though >> as I said on lxc-users earlier today, short of having manufacturer >> support for the features we need in the kernel, that's as easy as it's >> going to get... >> >> In my experience, devices that are supported by cyanogenmod tend to be >> easier to work with since they come with a standard set of git branches >> and usually reasonably good build and deployment instructions. >> >> Note again that as this requires the device to be rooted and the >> bootloader to be unlocked, this may void your warranty. >> >> On Wed, Dec 11, 2013 at 07:27:04PM +0100, Mario wrote: >>> Do you have a tutorial that explains the procedure ? What are the >>> kernel features needed ? >>> >>> 2013/12/11, Stéphane Graber <[email protected]>: >>> > On Wed, Dec 11, 2013 at 07:14:15AM +0100, Mario wrote: >>> >> Only the old versions of Android are supported by LXC right now ? >>> > >>> > I'm not sure what you mean by old, my test device runs Android 4.2 and >>> > it certainly works on that. >>> > >>> > I haven't tried it on any 4.4 device yet but I'd expect the binaries >>> > to >>> > work fine there too (assuming you have a kernel with the required >>> > features). >>> > >>> >> 2013/12/10, Stéphane Graber <[email protected]>: >>> >> > Hello, >>> >> > >>> >> > Some of you may have noticed the rather large amount of fixes I've >>> >> > been >>> >> > working on for a while to get LXC to behave mostly fine on Android. >>> >> > >>> >> > With the recent rework of LXC's automated build system, I'm now >>> >> > happy >>> >> > to >>> >> > announce that every hour (provided there's a change in git master), >>> >> > a >>> >> > new android tarball will be produced with binaries built against >>> >> > the >>> >> > current version of the Android NDK. >>> >> > >>> >> > Resulting builds may be found at: >>> >> > http://qa.linuxcontainers.org/master/current/android-armel/ >>> >> > >>> >> > If you want to run those, you'll need an ARM based Android device >>> >> > with >>> >> > a >>> >> > compatible kernel (you'll likely need to hand-build one), then >>> >> > unpack >>> >> > the tarball in /, unpack a container in /data/lxc/containers/ and >>> >> > finally start it with "./run-lxc lxc-start -n <container>". >>> >> > >>> >> > I expect all the binaries command to work fine. The templates and >>> >> > all >>> >> > other scripts currently don't due to the rather limited shell being >>> >> > available on Android. I may try to resolve that in the near future. >>> >> > >>> >> > Have fun! >>> >> > >>> >> > -- >>> >> > Stéphane Graber >>> >> > Ubuntu developer >>> >> > http://www.ubuntu.com >>> >> > >>> >> >>> >> >>> >> -- >>> >> Mario. >>> >> _______________________________________________ >>> >> lxc-devel mailing list >>> >> [email protected] >>> >> http://lists.linuxcontainers.org/listinfo/lxc-devel >>> > >>> > -- >>> > Stéphane Graber >>> > Ubuntu developer >>> > http://www.ubuntu.com >>> > >>> >>> >>> -- >>> Mario. >>> _______________________________________________ >>> lxc-devel mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> http://lists.linuxcontainers.org/listinfo/lxc-devel >> >> -- >> Stéphane Graber >> Ubuntu developer >> http://www.ubuntu.com >> > > > -- > Mario. > -- Mario. _______________________________________________ lxc-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.linuxcontainers.org/listinfo/lxc-devel
