This is the first ever project that ports Android OS into an image that can be used to create Android virtual machines running on Openstack clouds with full virtualisation support. Currently we only support Android 4.4 Kitkat 64bit distribution.

Instructons on how to create the image yourself: http://thisismyeye.blogspot.co.uk/2014/04/enabling-virtio-drivers-on-kernel-for.html

This image is not perfect yet. Contributors are welcome!

This work is done by Chathura Madhusanka Sarathchandra Magurawalage as a part of his research activities at Network Convergence Laboratory (NCL), University Of Essex

Related Research Projects:
*EU-funded FP7 Project MONICA (Mobile Cloud Computing: Networks, Services and Architecture).
*EU-funded FP7 Project CLIMBER (Cross-Layer Investigation and Integration of Computing and Networking Aspects of Mobile Social Networks).
*EU-funded FP7 Project EVANS (End-to-end Virtual Resource Management..)

Features

  • Virtio kernel modules loaded on Androidx86
  • Automatically fetch nova keypair from the openstack metadata service
  • Automatically start SSH daemon on boot

Project Samples

Androidx86 VM - Grub Androidx86 VM on Openstack - Command prompt

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Categories

Virtual Machine, Mobile, Operating Systems, Virtualization

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Intended Audience

Science/Research, Telecommunications Industry, System Administrators, Engineering

User Interface

Console/Terminal, Command-line

Programming Language

Unix Shell, Java

Related Categories

Unix Shell Virtual Machine Software, Unix Shell Mobile Software, Unix Shell Operating Systems, Unix Shell Virtualization Software, Java Virtual Machine Software, Java Mobile Software, Java Operating Systems, Java Virtualization Software

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2014-04-04
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