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

[Mario]

Do you have a tutorial that explains the procedure ? What are the
kernel features needed ?

2013/12/11, Stéphane Graber <stgraber at ubuntu.com>:
> 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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-- 
Mario.