Hello to everyone. Some time ago I bought the PandaBoard ES. This new board is very very nice. It's fast and powerful,even if a little bit limited with the only ubuntu arm operating system supported. When I work on the board I miss the X86 system. Since that I have understood that I can't have it,I wonder if I can virtualize Android while Ubuntu is running. I'm very interested to have these 2 os's run simultaneusly. After having studied the case,I'm sure there is a way : using the codezero hypervisor (http://www.l4dev.org). The problem is that I haven't found any tutorial that explain how to do...on the net there is only a video,on youtube..another way could be using LXC (Linux Containers). Since I'm almost a newbie,I have documented myself a little bit : I found this tutorial : http://www.techrepublic.com/blog/ope...tag=rbxccnbtr1 it seems to be very well written. He says the easiest way to set up an LXC-based container is to use an existing base operating system, such as the templates provided by the OpenVZ project,listed here : http://wiki.openvz.org/Download/template/precreated but what about if I create a specific template for Android ?. If someone of you is experienced with this,could give me an advice ? I would know if my idea could works. Thanks.
I tried to run Android 2.3 simultaneously with Ubuntu 11.10 using LXC. Here is what I did. you can see what's happened on the pictures attached : $ cat >> /etc/network/interfaces << EOF > auto br0 > > iface br0 inet static > address 192.168.99.1 > broadcast 0.0.0.0 > netmask 255.255.255.0 > bridge_ports none > bridge_fd 0 > bridge_maxwait 0 > bridge_hello 0 > bridge_maxage 12 > bridge_stp off > post-up ip route add 192.168.99.201 dev br0 > EOF $ ifup br0 mkdir -p /cgroup /media/system /media/cache /media/userdata tar -xzvf sdcard-android-lxc-rootfs.tar.gz mkdir -p /srv/lxc/android23 cd sdcard-android-lxc-rootfs cp -r * /srv/lxc/android23 cd /srv/lxc/android23 nano android23.conf lxc.utsname = android23 lxc.tty = 4 lxc.rootfs = /srv/lxc/android23 # network lxc.network.type = veth lxc.network.flags = up lxc.network.link = br0 lxc.network.ipv4 = 192.168.99.202 0.0.0.0 lxc.network.name = eth0 lxc.network.veth.pair = vethvm2 lxc.cgroup.devices.deny = a # deny all first # mount points lxc.mount.entry=none /srv/lxc/android23/proc proc defaults 0 0 lxc.mount.entry=none /srv/lxc/android23/sys sysfs defaults 0 0 lxc.mount.entry=/lib /srv/lxc/android23/lib none ro,bind 0 0 lxc.mount.entry=/usr/share/locale /srv/lxc/android23/usr/share/locale none rw,bind 0 0 # /dev/null and zero lxc.cgroup.devices.allow = c 1:3 rwm lxc.cgroup.devices.allow = c 1:5 rwm # consoles lxc.cgroup.devices.allow = c 5:* rwm lxc.cgroup.devices.allow = c 4:* rwm # /dev/{,u}random lxc.cgroup.devices.allow = c 1:9 rwm lxc.cgroup.devices.allow = c 1:8 rwm # /dev/pts/* - pts namespaces lxc.cgroup.devices.allow = c 136:* rwm lxc.cgroup.devices.allow = c 5:2 rwm # rtc lxc.cgroup.devices.allow = c 254:0 rwm # cpu and memory #lxc.cgroup.cpuset.cpus = 0 #lxc.cgroup.cpu.shares = 1024 #lxc.cgroup.memory.limit_in_bytes = 512M #lxc.cgroup.memory.memsw.limit_in_bytes = 512M # 10:* devices lxc.cgroup.devices.allow = c 10:0 rwm # dev/pmem lxc.cgroup.devices.allow = c 10:1 rwm # dev/pmem_adsp lxc.cgroup.devices.allow = c 10:2 rwm # dev/pmem_camera lxc.cgroup.devices.allow = c 10:223 rwm # dev/uinput lxc.cgroup.devices.allow = c 10:30 rwm lxc.cgroup.devices.allow = c 10:31 rwm lxc.cgroup.devices.allow = c 10:32 rwm lxc.cgroup.devices.allow = c 10:33 rwm lxc.cgroup.devices.allow = c 10:34 rwm lxc.cgroup.devices.allow = c 10:35 rwm lxc.cgroup.devices.allow = c 10:36 rwm lxc.cgroup.devices.allow = c 10:37 rwm lxc.cgroup.devices.allow = c 10:39 rwm lxc.cgroup.devices.allow = c 10:40 rwm # /dev/keychord lxc.cgroup.devices.allow = c 10:41 rwm lxc.cgroup.devices.allow = c 10:42 rwm lxc.cgroup.devices.allow = c 10:43 rwm lxc.cgroup.devices.allow = c 10:44 rwm lxc.cgroup.devices.allow = c 10:45 rwm lxc.cgroup.devices.allow = c 10:46 rwm lxc.cgroup.devices.allow = c 10:47 rwm lxc.cgroup.devices.allow = c 10:48 rwm lxc.cgroup.devices.allow = c 10:49 rwm lxc.cgroup.devices.allow = c 10:50 rwm lxc.cgroup.devices.allow = c 10:51 rwm lxc.cgroup.devices.allow = c 10:52 rwm lxc.cgroup.devices.allow = c 10:53 rwm lxc.cgroup.devices.allow = c 10:54 rwm lxc.cgroup.devices.allow = c 10:55 rwm lxc.cgroup.devices.allow = c 10:56 rwm lxc.cgroup.devices.allow = c 10:57 rwm lxc.cgroup.devices.allow = c 10:58 rwm lxc.cgroup.devices.allow = c 10:59 rwm lxc.cgroup.devices.allow = c 10:60 rwm lxc.cgroup.devices.allow = c 10:61 rwm lxc.cgroup.devices.allow = c 10:62 rwm lxc.cgroup.devices.allow = c 10:63 rwm # dev/input/* lxc.cgroup.devices.allow = c 13:64 rwm # event0 -> lightsensor-level lxc.cgroup.devices.allow = c 13:65 rwm # event1 -> h2w headset lxc.cgroup.devices.allow = c 13:66 rwm # event2 -> compass lxc.cgroup.devices.allow = c 13:67 rwm # event3 -> synaptics-rmi-touchscreen lxc.cgroup.devices.allow = c 13:68 rwm # event4 -> proximity lxc.cgroup.devices.allow = c 13:69 rwm # event5 -> mahimahi-keypad lxc.cgroup.devices.allow = c 13:70 rwm # event6 -> mahimahi-nav lxc.cgroup.devices.allow = c 29:0 rwm # dev/fb0 lxc.cgroup.devices.allow = c 31:* rwm # dev/block/mtdblock* lxc.cgroup.devices.allow = c 90:* rwm # dev/mtd lxc.cgroup.devices.allow = c 108:0 rwm # dev/ppp lxc.cgroup.devices.allow = c 179:* rwm # dev/block/mmcblk0* lxc.cgroup.devices.allow = c 248:* rwm # control0, config0, frame0 lxc.cgroup.devices.allow = c 251:0 rwm # dev/q6venc lxc.cgroup.devices.allow = c 252:0 rwm # dev/vdec lxc.cgroup.devices.allow = c 250:0 rwm # dev/ttyHS0 lxc.cgroup.devices.allow = c 253:* rwm lxc-create -f /srv/lxc/android23/android23.conf -n android23 lxc-start android23 I think that it worked and that I need to continue configuring init.rc, init, DalvikVM, system_server, busybox (route), dns, etc... ?
Hi marietto, I am also trying to make Android container run on LXC. I am using raspberry pi board and Ubuntu OS. I have followed the same step as yours. Although, the lxc-start function work without any error, android container is in STOPPED state. I have also tried to output log file and got: "lxc-start 1447923589.838 WARN lxc_utmp - '/proc/24605/root/var/run' not found" error. Did you encounter the same problem?
