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I wonder, if one got a relatively high-powered Android phone, if one could run a conventional Linux distro in a persistent VM and ssh and VNC to it and stuff. Like Crouton for Android or something

Daniel Micay

@DanielMicay

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@mcclure111

Pixel 6 has usable hardware virtualization support, although you would need an OS making use of it for this.

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Danny Lin

@kdrag0n

Feb 13

Full-blown virtual machines with the KVM hypervisor (near-native performance) on Pixel 6 + Android 13 DP1

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5:45 PM · Feb 26, 2022Twitter Web App

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Thanks. Someone else mentioned chroot jails-- are there out-of-box solutions for just running a little linux environment / wifi sshd on a stock Android kernel?

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Does Termux count? Although it is getting less OOTB with the forthcoming removal from the Play store :(

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