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

[Stéphane Graber]

On Wed, Dec 11, 2013 at 08:11:13AM -0800, Tony Su wrote:
> Interesting.
> But, many existing Android Users will still have a problem
> running/installing a tarball.
> 
> If you could take it one step further to package in an APK, you'll likely
> get far wider usage.
> Of course, with Android, it's also critical to fully document the system
> requirements, particularly which Android version the build is against.
> 
> Tony

If you could point me to an easy way to generate an APK from a project
which doesn't use the Android build system, needs to be deployed and
always ran as root and in non-standard location, I'd be interested.

Considering the kernel requirements, I very much doubt we'll find users
who know how to build their own kernel and deploy them but don't know
how to unpack a tarball on their device :)

> 
> 
> On Tue, Dec 10, 2013 at 2:07 PM, Stéphane Graber <stgraber at ubuntu.com>wrote:
> 
> > 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
> >
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