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Have Jolla engineers considered running Android in lxc container? It seems Cannonical is trying something like that for their "Ubuntu Touch" OS. Information on the Internet is sparse and seems to be limited on few smaller projects. Still interesting to take a look.

Benefits of this approach would obviously be:

• better isolation of Sailfish and Android, as well as ability to fine tune and tweak "meeting points" where two OS's would be able to interact

• Jolla would be able to apply AppArmour on the whole Android container;

• Snapshoting Android rootfs via lxc/btrfs integration (to enable rolling back after some malicious program is installed or just something random went wrong)

• Run multiple Android versions on Sailfish

Info links: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Touch/ContainerArchitecture

https://lists.linuxcontainers.org/pipermail/lxc-devel/2013-December/006516.html

https://www.stgraber.org/2013/12/23/lxc-1-0-some-more-advanced-container-usage/

http://condroid.github.io/about.html

Have Jolla engineers considered running Android in lxc container? It seems Cannonical is trying something like that for their "Ubuntu Touch" OS. Information on the Internet is sparse and seems to be limited on to few smaller projects. Still interesting to take a look.

Benefits of this approach would obviously be:

• better isolation of Sailfish and Android, as well as ability to fine tune and tweak "meeting points" where two OS's would be able to interact

• Jolla would be able to apply AppArmour on the whole Android container;

• Snapshoting Android rootfs via lxc/btrfs integration (to enable rolling back after some malicious program is installed or just something random went wrong)

• Run multiple Android versions on Sailfish

Info links: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Touch/ContainerArchitecture

https://lists.linuxcontainers.org/pipermail/lxc-devel/2013-December/006516.html

https://www.stgraber.org/2013/12/23/lxc-1-0-some-more-advanced-container-usage/

http://condroid.github.io/about.html