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You have it with ChromeOS 67. Docker without having to put in developer.
Can you share a specific example of this? I got lost in the parent article but was that in there?
You have a GNU/Linux kernel which you can do whatever you want.
For more info visit Reddit and the Crostini subreddit.
You can use Steam or really whatever.
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Can you share a specific example of this? I got lost in the parent article but was that in there?
Yes. Boot, launch chrome tab, type Ctrl alt t, then type vmc start dev. You have a GNU/Linux kernel which you can do whatever you want. For more info visit Reddit and the Crostini subreddit. You can use Steam or really whatever.
Even GUI works as forwarded to ChromeOS. So start xclock and opens.
I wonder how hard it would be to get this working on, say, Fedora... At the very least, one would need to replace what sounds like a surfaceflinger wayland proxy.
Yeah, it would be pretty interesting to be able to use this as an Android development environment. It should be significantly faster than current approaches with emulation.
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Very easy with ChromeOS 67. Just boot, launch a chrome window and type Ctrl alt t. Then type vmc start dev. Then you can use whatever distribution you want as you have full GNU/Linux. Only works on Pixelbooks but Google will extend and will share more at Google IO. You can even package up gnu/Linux applications. One click and they run in a container but on a second Linux kernel. So Android shares the ChromeOS kernel…
And that helps me get an Android container running on an actual desktop OS how? That was the question, after all.
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Can you share a specific example of this? I got lost in the parent article but was that in there?
Yes. Boot, launch chrome tab, type Ctrl alt t, then type vmc start dev. You have a GNU/Linux kernel which you can do whatever you want. For more info visit Reddit and the Crostini subreddit. You can use Steam or really whatever.
I know one of the major pains we have when on-boarding new people is the whole dance to get to that first working build / first meaningful change. I can imagine this being significantly more simple if a working dev environment was shipped as a container.
I just had a vision of all major OS projects providing developer containers for their projects. Like, you could just pull the latest Firefox dev container and run a single command to have a running debuggable app. I know one of the major pains we have when on-boarding new people is the whole dance to get to that first working build / first meaningful change. I can imagine this being significantly more simple if a wor…
I just had a vision of all major OS projects providing developer containers for their projects. Like, you could just pull the latest Firefox dev container and run a single command to have a running debuggable app. I know one of the major pains we have when on-boarding new people is the whole dance to get to that first working build / first meaningful change. I can imagine this being significantly more simple if a wor…
Versus they did Android as a container on the same Linux kernel as ChromeOS. But locked to only an Android container.
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Yes. Boot, launch chrome tab, type Ctrl alt t, then type vmc start dev. You have a GNU/Linux kernel which you can do whatever you want. For more info visit Reddit and the Crostini subreddit. You can use Steam or really whatever.
Is it also enabled in old ARM only chrome books? Mine is in dev mode and I would switch it back to regular if I can run kvm inside.
But realize this losses cross platform support inheriently so you would have to use ARM gnu/Linux binaries.
Interesting to see Chrome OS adopt process compartmentalization techniques such as this, specifically adopting `cgroups'. Afaik, cgroups isn't enabled by default and requires customizing the kernel before you can enable it. At the very least, container tools such as Docker require symlinks too to invoke chroot-like filesystem isolation and this is also not available. It'll interesting to see where they'll go with thi…
Speaking of which, it is now possible to run full linux and android apps on chromebooks which support containers (and vms?) in a tab with the new official Google Crostini project. Makes the Pixelbook more attractive. https://twitter.com/rothgar/status/981579699833880576 More info on Crostini https://www.reddit.com/r/chromeos/comments/7ytpb1/project_cr... …