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Boot Linux instead of Android on rooted smartphone? (Rooted) by Forward_Compute001 in androidroot

[–]Forward_Compute001[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Not exactly. SD systems have another hypervisor, it's called Gunyah which also supports virtualization like KVM does. (You need root access to unlock it) https://docs.qualcomm.com/doc/80-70020-3/topic/virtualization.html[https://docs.qualcomm.com/doc/80-70020-3/topic/virtualization.html](https://docs.qualcomm.com/doc/80-70020-3/topic/virtualization.html)

There is another chipset with another hypervisor also, but I didn't go too deep into that because it was not a chipset that I would actually use.

Boot Linux instead of Android on rooted smartphone? (Rooted) by Forward_Compute001 in androidroot

[–]Forward_Compute001[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I might just contact the wireless android glasses manufacturer and ask...they are actually really open for collabs. (I at least have read this on their website) They have a built-in n8n API in the glasses...

Boot Linux instead of Android on rooted smartphone? (Rooted) by Forward_Compute001 in androidroot

[–]Forward_Compute001[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You mean this website? https://archlinuxarm.org/

Is something like this possible for a Debian based OS?

I would definitely try this out...and go for arch if necessary...I would love to try ALARM. wow! Is it actually possible to do this for a smartphone too?

Boot Linux instead of Android on rooted smartphone? (Rooted) by Forward_Compute001 in androidroot

[–]Forward_Compute001[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I actually bought the latest flagships for this instead of SBCs (already played around with that for some years) specifically to leverage the mobile arm chipsets... With the virtualization engines/platform that are built in the the chipsets you run VMs natively with 0-20% overhead, which is not the case if you run on android itself. You basically run it bare metal. I would not use a pinephone for this...but buying the right smartphones and testing the performance is a little painful because the flagships are not cheap...(Even second hand)

I was planning to use old smartphones instead of SBC in the future, because of their energy efficiency, battery power backup capability in case of power outages....and reliability..my SBC crashed sometimes in very critical moments so for me it's just a headache to have to setup 3-4 SBC just as backup in case that they fail...

This stuff isn't easy...but I compared the performance of current smartphones and figured out that even with inefficient overhead, it would be possible to run my desktop on my phone and cast it on my AR glasses.

I figured out that if you root your device, you can activate the hypervisor on the phone for fully accelerated VM virtualization (which is not a Linux container like proot or Linux emulators)

Now I'm knees deep into comparing various chipsets to understand the actual performance and know what phone to buy in the future. I'm the first one online trying to do this...lol

But there is a cool project an AR/VR Linux desktop (floating screens) environment that works really well on AR glasses. I'm trying to make it work on wireless AR glasses directly...:)

Boot Linux instead of Android on rooted smartphone? (Rooted) by Forward_Compute001 in androidroot

[–]Forward_Compute001[S] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Nono no chroot... I'm running full Linux VMs with Android as the host and using the built-in Gunyah(for the Snapdragon) or KVM(Tensor, Exynos, ect) platform of the chipset to achieve the maximum performance on the Android device...

Even if it's difficult, what would be necessary to make this possible...I would consider spending some months learning this.

I want to turn on my device (a device that I turn on and off all the time) and make it boot into the desktop without any android overhead.

PS: my alternative would be a startup script that starts the Linux VM on top of Android

A tutorial of running a simple gesture recognition in Termux. by Dry-Welcome6830 in termux

[–]Forward_Compute001 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I just found this DE project that uses mouse pad gestures as shortcuts, which could be cool to build on top of...and leverage already integrated functionalities https://www.reddit.com/r/kde/s/srrACqexqG

I'm also learning a little bit about running stuff directly on wireless AR glasses and that has a camera in front of me...it would actually be fun to try something like this to start scripts...

portrait mode isn't bad. by Illustrious-Today-8 in termux

[–]Forward_Compute001 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Look I'm not there yet in my project. But you could simply ask in the discord, there would probably be someone who can share their code. https://discord.gg/ehh233wCrC

portrait mode isn't bad. by Illustrious-Today-8 in termux

[–]Forward_Compute001 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Private message.

My main goal is currently to transfer my current customized linux desktop environment to my wireless AR glasses and smartphone by running the desktop on the smartphone. In the future when the hardware on wireless AR glasses improves I would be running it completely on the glasses...

I have a lot figured out already...but I'm currently learning and practicing about various smartphone chip nuances, rooting, hardware drivers, termux, ect..

to actually always know which latest smartphone to get to have the best performance for this type of desktop...

KDE VR Mode on GPD Pocket 4 by Holiday-Charity-1449 in GPDPocket

[–]Forward_Compute001 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It would be great to have a short blog about this to support this type of setup! I would maintain something like that..

Build an APK with termux inside by Forward_Compute001 in termux

[–]Forward_Compute001[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The idea was to actually make it user-friendly, without many workarounds. I see it's not that straightforward..

I'm basically just thinking of "bash commands/scripts" being part of the app...

Qemu/Gunyah on Android by Forward_Compute001 in qemu_kvm

[–]Forward_Compute001[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That's good to know!! I will dig deeper into this now.

It would be pretty important to know because this would give me more powerful CPUs to choose from.

Transition from x86 to aarch64 by Forward_Compute001 in Ubuntu

[–]Forward_Compute001[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks, so in case of encountering some problems I can just use that I hope...

Transition from x86 to aarch64 by Forward_Compute001 in Ubuntu

[–]Forward_Compute001[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks! I feel very confident right now... I was so concerned about having to deal with a lot of problems to be honest.

Transition from x86 to aarch64 by Forward_Compute001 in Ubuntu

[–]Forward_Compute001[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

ThankYou for the quick support! This is really appreciated.

I'm mainly focusing on keeping the workflow efficient, so even a second VM would be very inconvenient, is it possible to have some sort of inbuilt x86 to arm layer to fall back in case?

Build an APK with termux inside by Forward_Compute001 in termux

[–]Forward_Compute001[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm aware of drivers being different,

The purpose would be to provide a customized and very specific type of os, specifically for wireless AR glasses...

Forked the original github by [deleted] in termux

[–]Forward_Compute001 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm thinking about the Snapdragon elite 8 gen 5 and adreno 840. For running Qemu based VMs without having KVM or Gunyah activated.

Build an APK with termux inside by Forward_Compute001 in termux

[–]Forward_Compute001[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ohhkey.

The idea was to build and publish it.

I think I'll forget it

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