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A few things I didn't see an answer to in my skim of the article - is this hardware or bios locked, or will there be the ability to get this functionality on e

A few things I didn't see an answer to in my skim of the article - is this hardware or bios locked, or will there be the ability to get this functionality on eg older phones - what are the performance characteristics here, I wonder? I'm keen because we produce a ton of e-waste in the form of mostly useful cell phones, and it'd be cool to turn them into useful devices again. This might help enable that.

judge2020 5y ago
> Currently, no Android devices on the market ship with the Virtualization module — not even Google’s own Pixel 6 — but this is set to change with the upcoming Android 13 release. In fact, Google is currently testing its new virtualization tools on the Pixel 6; if you build AOSP with the target aosp_oriole_pkvm, you’ll find that com.android.virt will be automatically inherited. I don’t know if Google will enable pKVM on the Pixel 6 series with the Android 13 update, but there is evidence that Google plans for Android 13 to include the first release of the pKVM hypervisor and virtual machine framework. Original blog: https://blog.esper.io/android-dessert-bites-5-virtualization-in-android-13-351789/ https://blog.esper.io/android-dessert-bites-5-virtualization...
kdrag0n 5y ago
There's very little chance of enabling KVM on Qualcomm devices: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30322404 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30322404. Theoretically, it's always been possible on other SoCs, but now it basically works out-of-the-box on the Pixel 6. This and the videos below it should give you an idea of the performance: https://twitter.com/kdrag0n/status/1493082399520919552 https://twitter.com/kdrag0n/status/1493082399520919552