To Run Android and Ubuntu simultaneously on the Pandaboard ES

The idea that I will talk about came to my mind reading this article : [login to view URL] I've thought why using the Nexus One ? I have the pandaboard ES on my home. Then,this project wants to setup and run multiple isolated Android 4 user-space instances on a commercial board Pandaboard ES. Operating system-level virtualization method Linux Containers (LXC) should be applied to create and run Android 4 Containers on a single control host. The standard Android 4 Kernel should be modified to boot GNU-Linux Ubuntu 12 from SD-card and to provide isolation mechanisms and resource management features for Android user-space. Somewhere I read that there are 3 major points for creating Android rootfs for LXC container: 1. identify the minimal set of Android device nodes to be created within the /dev directory of the rootfs 2. patch the zygote dalvik System server ([login to view URL]) to drop the CAP_SYS_BOOT capability, since LXC does not allow containers to reboot the device 3. modify the [login to view URL] configuration, such that the default mtd partitions (e.g. system, userdata) are not mounted at /system and /data of the rootfs Additional modifications can be applied to the init process, such that disabling device node creation etc.. PandaBoard ES. What is this ? [login to view URL] LXC ? What is this ? [login to view URL] Linux Containers take a completely different approach than system virtualization technologies such as KVM and Xen, which started by booting separate virtual systems on emulated hardware and then attempted to lower their overhead via paravirtualization and related mechanisms. Instead of retrofitting efficiency onto full isolation, LXC started out with an efficient mechanism (existing Linux process management) and added isolation, resulting in a system virtualization mechanism as scalable and portable as chroot, capable of simultaneously supporting thousands of emulated systems on a single server while also providing lightweight virtualization options to routers and smart phones.