[lxc-devel] Announcing public builds of LXC for Android

[Stéphane Graber]

On Wed, Dec 11, 2013 at 07:14:15AM +0100, Mario wrote:
> Only the old versions of Android are supported by LXC right now ?

I'm not sure what you mean by old, my test device runs Android 4.2 and
it certainly works on that.

I haven't tried it on any 4.4 device yet but I'd expect the binaries to
work fine there too (assuming you have a kernel with the required
features).

> 2013/12/10, Stéphane Graber <stgraber at ubuntu.com>:
> > Hello,
> >
> > Some of you may have noticed the rather large amount of fixes I've been
> > working on for a while to get LXC to behave mostly fine on Android.
> >
> > With the recent rework of LXC's automated build system, I'm now happy to
> > announce that every hour (provided there's a change in git master), a
> > new android tarball will be produced with binaries built against the
> > current version of the Android NDK.
> >
> > Resulting builds may be found at:
> > http://qa.linuxcontainers.org/master/current/android-armel/
> >
> > If you want to run those, you'll need an ARM based Android device with a
> > compatible kernel (you'll likely need to hand-build one), then unpack
> > the tarball in /, unpack a container in /data/lxc/containers/ and
> > finally start it with "./run-lxc lxc-start -n <container>".
> >
> > I expect all the binaries command to work fine. The templates and all
> > other scripts currently don't due to the rather limited shell being
> > available on Android. I may try to resolve that in the near future.
> >
> > Have fun!
> >
> > --
> > Stéphane Graber
> > Ubuntu developer
> > http://www.ubuntu.com
> >
> 
> 
> -- 
> Mario.
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Stéphane Graber
Ubuntu developer
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