Thanks Ian for replying.
So , it seems, as my main requirement is that I can''t modify the
Android
OS, so I am left with the only option of using full virtualization. (xVisor
looks good and has been ported on ARM).
On Tue, Oct 1, 2013 at 6:49 PM, Ian Campbell
<Ian.Campbell@citrix.com>wrote:
> On Tue, 2013-10-01 at 18:40 +0530, anshul makkar wrote:
> > Sorry for my ignorance here, but thus Xen port of ARM (Cortex A15
> > with hardware virtualization ) supports running unmodified Android as
> > guest or guest needs to be patched to be able to run.
>
> The patches needed to run on Xen on ARM went into Linux upstream around
> 3.7 or so. If you have a kernel newer than that with CONFIG_XEN and the
> associated other items enabled then you should be good to go.
>
> Last I saw Android was still on 3.4, so you''d either need to wait
for
> them to update or do some backports yourself. Even after they update
> it''s not obvious that they would necessarily enable CONFIG_XEN.
>
> Caveat: I''ve not actually tried android on Xen in any way...
>
> Ian.
>
>
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Thanks
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