ChromeOS: How VM and Containers will seem to run(reddit.com)
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ChromeOS: How VM and Containers will seem to run
https://www.reddit.com/r/chromeos/comments/742f8j/how_chromeos_vm_and_containers_will_seem_to_run/
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For context, ChromiumOS is already available on Google Cloud as their recommended Kubernetes host OS. Launching a new GCE instance gives me "Container-Optimized OS 63-10032.71.0 beta (ChromiumOS-4.4.86 Kubernetes: 1.7.8 Docker: 17.03.2)" among the other base images.
Oh, interesting. I see "Kernel: ChromiumOS-4.4.86" in the list and some of their docs on it have other cros-isms (/mnt/stateful_partition), and that version 63 lines up with Chrome. cros is sort of a surprising choice of upstream for a GCE thing, but I guess it is a hardened, public Linux kernel that Google already maintains.
Makes everything confusing, though, since there are some commits specifically mentioning VMs and the codename for the Pixelbook (Eve), so something is happening there, but there's also an intersection with a whole other container-related project :/
I wouldn't mind if ARC, the Android subsystem, could live in a VM. Android apps can poke at a bunch of surface area that webpages can't.
Makes everything confusing, though, since there are some commits specifically mentioning VMs and the codename for the Pixelbook (Eve), so something is happening there, but there's also an intersection with a whole other container-related project :/
I wouldn't mind if ARC, the Android subsystem, could live in a VM. Android apps can poke at a bunch of surface area that webpages can't.
Is any of this enabled yet (even if only in the dev channels)? Being able to run arbitrary containers locally would make a Pixelbook a lot more powerful.
Yeah I'm in the market now and I'm looking for ways to justify dropping a grand on a Chromebook.
Technically, termux is a container although of a very different kind...
But then again, you don't need a pixelbook to run that :(
But then again, you don't need a pixelbook to run that :(
Same with GNUroot which I prefer over Termux. They both run in a container using a fake Chroot.
Being able to run Android Studio on a container would be really nice.
You mean like this: https://github.com/menny/docker_android/tree/master/android_...
I really hope that ChromeOS's way would be better.
I really hope that ChromeOS's way would be better.
Considering Android apps run in containers in ChromeOS,I noticed that apps (media player) doesn't have HW acceleration support. Does the VM and Containers mentioned in OP, offer HW acceleration ?
I'd love to use my HP G1 for something other than browsing Imgur while I am watching the news at night :P