[GTALUG] Virtual Machines Under Android?

[Christopher Browne]

I'd imagine that it should be conceivable to run Docker, and that THAT
would be a preferable approach, involving running ARM code as opposed to
x86 code (because emulation would be hyperexpensive).

There certainly is a port of Docker to RPi  <
https://resin.io/blog/release-docker-0-7-2-for-arm/>, which points towards
it being plausible to use Docker on various Linux distributions that run on
RPi.  It's an interesting question whether or not that's much use for more
mobile devices, e.g. - whether or not they're running similar enough
instruction sets.

I wouldn't expect the other virtualization approaches to work out terribly
well; they tend to be hungry for memory and storage space, which are
exactly the things you don't have plenty of on phones/tablets.  (Leave
aside the thought that some of the virtualization systems require hardware
support that's unlikely to be present on ARM.)

Here's a bit of description on what's good/bad about Docker on Raspberry
Pi...  http://blog.xebia.com/2014/08/25/docker-on-a-raspberry-pi/
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