[lxc-devel] Cells open source release

[shridutt kothari]

Hi Jeremy,

That sounds awesome, What would be the key use cases we can imagine with 
this?

Regards,
Shridutt Kothari
Impetus Infotech Limited
shriduttkothari at gmail.com
 

On Thursday, September 19, 2013 3:47:47 AM UTC+5:30, Jeremy C. Andrus wrote:
>
> Hello everyone, 
>
> On behalf of myself and the rest of the Cells team here at Columbia 
> University, I would like to announce the release of the Cells open 
> source project: 
>    info: http://cells.cs.columbia.edu/ 
>    code: https://cells-source.cs.columbia.edu/ 
>
> Cells provides multiple, isolated, virtual Android instances runnning 
> on a single device with support for smartphone and tablet hardware 
> including 3D graphics, WiFi, touchscreen input, and more. This release 
> targets the ASUS Nexus 7 (grouper) tablet, and supports essential 
> Android drivers and subsystems such as Android alarms, frame buffer 
> earlysuspend, wakelocks (suspend blockers), binder, and logger. 
>
> Users can create, modify, delete, start, and stop instances of Android 
> (Cells) using a command-line tool called "cell" through the standard 
> Android adb shell. Users can switch between instances of Android using 
> a key combo on their device (volume up + volume down on the Nexus 7), 
> or through the cell command. 
>
> We achieve all this by leveraging containers and namespaces in the 
> kernel, and by building on recently released kernel patches to support 
> device namespaces: https://github.com/Cellrox/devns-patches 
>
> Cells is minimally intrusive to the Android open-source project (AOSP) 
> code base with our Nexus 7 prototype requiring only a few small patches 
> to the Jelly Bean 4.3 repositories. A list of patches applied on top of 
> both 
> AOSP, and the Nexus 7 Tegra kernel can be seen using a search on the 
> Cells Gerrit Review site: 
>
> https://cells-source.cs.columbia.edu/#/q/status:merged+topic:cells-nexus7,n,z 
>
> We invite anyone interested to download, build, and play with Cells. 
> We provide a guide on how to download, build, and contribute to the 
> sources here: 
>    http://cells.cs.columbia.edu/build/ 
>
> We invite you to join the project mailing list and encourage you to ask 
> questions and discuss the sources on the list: 
>    ce... at lists.cs.columbia.edu <javascript:> 
>    https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/cells 
>
> Best Regards, 
>
>         -Jeremy 
>
> -- 
> Cells: A Virtual Mobile Smartphone Architecture 
> Proceedings of the 23rd ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles 
> (SOSP 2011) 
> [pdf]: http://systems.cs.columbia.edu/files/wpid-cells-sosp2011.pdf

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