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I wonder how hard it would be to get this working on, say, Fedora...

At the very least, one would need to replace what sounds like a surfaceflinger <-> wayland proxy.

Yeah, it would be pretty interesting to be able to use this as an Android development environment. It should be significantly faster than current approaches with emulation.

Supports AS. The thinking is this is why Google did it. You can now run GNU/Linux applications

Very easy with ChromeOS 67.

Just boot, launch a chrome window and type Ctrl alt t.

Then type vmc start dev.

Then you can use whatever distribution you want as you have full GNU/Linux.

Only works on Pixelbooks but Google will extend and will share more at Google IO.

You can even package up gnu/Linux applications. One click and they run in a container but on a second Linux kernel.

So Android shares the ChromeOS kernel where gnu/Linux will run in a container on top of a VM using the KVM.

It is interesting that Google did not feel just using containers for GNU/Linux was secure enough.

And that helps me get an Android container running on an actual desktop OS how? That was the question, after all.

OK, but he was asking how to do it in Fedora, not ChromeOS.

> It is interesting that Google did not feel just using containers for GNU/Linux was secure enough.

Not a surprise to anyone who has followed Linux kernel security for the past years...

There's Anbox http://anbox.io/

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