[GTALUG] Virtual Machines Under Android?

[Scott Elcomb]

Docker would certainly be nice. Alas, the best I've come up with so
far to get Linux running on Android is with GNURoot. This gets me a
mostly-working Debian environment with X, twm, apt-get etc.

I whipped up some preliminary notes yesterday
<https://gist.github.com/psema4/c1545694272b1939b429> (includes links)
but there are some notable issues:

- This isn't really a tutorial yet; it's more a collection of notes
- There are some significant issues, like not being able to run xterm

That said, some simple X apps like xeyes & xclock run fine when run
from the terminal.

GNURoot is similar in some ways to linuxonandroid but it doesn't
require root (likely the source of a number of errors noted in my
gist).  LOA is fairly decent if all you need is a shell but my
experiences with X were quite awful (it was unusably slow)

There are plenty of VM's on the market for older, smaller machines.
Haven't seen much for x86 though :(


On Mon, Nov 17, 2014 at 12:29 AM, Christopher Browne <cbbrowne at gmail.com> wrote:
> I'd imagine that it should be concei:vable 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).
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