Hey all, I have recently been interested in running as much of my software tools on Android as possible. I already find lots of packages installable on Termux app (via its package manager "pkg"). Being able to run containerized apps seems very tempting to me. I wonder if Podman has Arm binaries for Android. Is it possible for Podman to run on Android? Android is Linux after all, and Podman can run rootless. Am I missing something here? M
Hi Mehdi, There are no official Podman binaries or packages provided by upstream for Android. But as you've mentioned: Android is based on Linux, so it should be technically possible to run Podman there. Happy hacking and kind regards, Valentin On Thu, May 4, 2023 at 12:45 AM Mehdi Haghgoo via Podman < podman@lists.podman.io> wrote:
Hey all,
I have recently been interested in running as much of my software tools on Android as possible. I already find lots of packages installable on Termux app (via its package manager "pkg").
Being able to run containerized apps seems very tempting to me. I wonder if Podman has Arm binaries for Android. Is it possible for Podman to run on Android? Android is Linux after all, and Podman can run rootless. Am I missing something here?
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Hi, see https://github.com/containers/podman/discussions/17717 The biggest problem seems to be the kernel that is shipped in android. Paul On Thu, May 4, 2023 at 8:46 AM Valentin Rothberg <vrothberg@redhat.com> wrote:
Hi Mehdi,
There are no official Podman binaries or packages provided by upstream for Android. But as you've mentioned: Android is based on Linux, so it should be technically possible to run Podman there.
Happy hacking and kind regards, Valentin
On Thu, May 4, 2023 at 12:45 AM Mehdi Haghgoo via Podman < podman@lists.podman.io> wrote:
Hey all,
I have recently been interested in running as much of my software tools on Android as possible. I already find lots of packages installable on Termux app (via its package manager "pkg").
Being able to run containerized apps seems very tempting to me. I wonder if Podman has Arm binaries for Android. Is it possible for Podman to run on Android? Android is Linux after all, and Podman can run rootless. Am I missing something here?
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Thanks Paul, The linked gist in that issue for running Docker on Android is very insightful. The bottom line send to be that we'll need a custom kernel compiled for it. If it then works with Docker, it should do with Podman as well. On Thu, May 4, 2023 at 11:46, Paul Holzinger<pholzing@redhat.com> wrote: _______________________________________________ Podman mailing list -- podman@lists.podman.io To unsubscribe send an email to podman-leave@lists.podman.io
I'm interested in this because I wan run any GUI application https://hub.docker.com/r/alsadi/containerized-gui-wayland https://hub.docker.com/r/alsadi/containerized-xorg-spice On Thu, May 4, 2023 at 11:49 AM Mehdi Haghgoo via Podman < podman@lists.podman.io> wrote:
Thanks Paul,
The linked gist in that issue for running Docker on Android is very insightful.
The bottom line send to be that we'll need a custom kernel compiled for it. If it then works with Docker, it should do with Podman as well.
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