On 8/22/2013 1:43 PM, Oren Laadan wrote: > > Hi everyone! > > We [1] have been working on bringing lightweight virtualization to > Linux-based mobile devices like Android (or other Linux-based devices > with diverse I/O) and want to share our solution: device namespaces. > > Imagine you could run several instances of your favorite mobile OS or > other distributions in isolated containers, each under the impression > of having exclusive access to device drivers; Interact and switch > between them within a blink, no flashing, no reboot. > > Device namespaces are an extension to existing Linux kernel namespaces > that brings lightweight virtualization to Linux-based end-user > devices, primarily mobile devices. > Device namespaces introduce a private and virtual namespace for device > drivers to create the illusion for a process group that it interacts > exclusively with a set of drivers. Device namespaces also introduce > the concepts of an “active” namespace with which a user interacts, vs > “non-active” namespaces that run in the background, and the ability to > switch between them.[2] > > We are planning to prepare individual patches to be submitted to the > relevant maintainers and mailing lists. In the meantime, we already > want to share a set of patches on top of the Android goldfish Kernel > 3.4 as well as a user-space demo, so you can see where we are heading > and get an overview of the approach and see how it works. > > We are aware that the patches are not ready for submission in their > current state, and we'd highly appreciate any feedback or suggestions > which may come to your mind once you have a look [3]. Of particular > interest is to elaborate a proper userspace API with respect to > existing and future use-cases. To illustrate a simple use-case we also > provide a simple userspace demo for Android [4]. > > I will be presenting "The Case for Linux Device Namespace" [5] at > LinuxCon North America 2013 [6]. We will also be attending the > Containers Track [7] at LPC 2013 to present the current state of the > patches and discuss the best course to proceed. > > We are looking forward to hear from you! > > Thanks, > > Oren. > Great news. I have been working on something similar, and will look over your patch set. Although, one use case that I want is kind of the reverse of what you're doing; to run an Android container on a Linux host, as well as just provide device protection to the host from containers.
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