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Increasingly more and more services I prefer to access online keep asking me |
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to download and use some app to be able to enjoy the goodness of their |
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offering in the future. Invariably these are Android apps they think their |
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customers will want to use. I don't have an android phone, but have QEMU |
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installed. I was wondering if I can run some/any of these apps as VM guests |
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within QEMU, on my amd64 Gentoo. |
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I had a look at this wiki page, but I'm not sure if all this is required just |
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to run some arm binary, when I don't need/want to compile software on ARM: |
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https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Embedded_Handbook/General/ |
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Compiling_with_qemu_user_chroot |
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I assume if I follow the instructions on the page I should be able to install |
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some Android image as a guest, then install the requisite app in the guest and |
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run it? Or is it more complicated than this and it won't run unless I install |
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it in a real smart phone, I'm connected to a cell tower at the time and give |
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them my phone number too? |
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My understanding of emulating an altogether different CPU arch in QEMU is non- |
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existent, I've always run x86 guest OS'/apps on x86 gentoo hosts. Do you have |
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any relevant experience you could share? |
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Regards, |
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Mick |
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