Docker would certainly be nice. Alas, the best I've come up with so far to get Linux running on Android is with GNURoot. This gets me a mostly-working Debian environment with X, twm, apt-get etc. I whipped up some preliminary notes yesterday <https://gist.github.com/psema4/c1545694272b1939b429> (includes links) but there are some notable issues: - This isn't really a tutorial yet; it's more a collection of notes - There are some significant issues, like not being able to run xterm That said, some simple X apps like xeyes & xclock run fine when run from the terminal. GNURoot is similar in some ways to linuxonandroid but it doesn't require root (likely the source of a number of errors noted in my gist). LOA is fairly decent if all you need is a shell but my experiences with X were quite awful (it was unusably slow) There are plenty of VM's on the market for older, smaller machines. Haven't seen much for x86 though :( On Mon, Nov 17, 2014 at 12:29 AM, Christopher Browne <cbbrowne@gmail.com> wrote:
I'd imagine that it should be concei:vable to run Docker, and that THAT would be a preferable approach, involving running ARM code as opposed to x86 code (because emulation would be hyperexpensive). <snip>
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