Can we dockerize this project?

[trinhpham]

Hello forks,

I really love this project because of its performance on my old-age machine (I need ~40 min to start the Google's emulator, but only 30s with android-x86 by using Virtualbox + snapshot).

As you know, most of applications needs Front-End (Android app, website, etc) and Back-End. By developing Backend, I recognized the power of Docker, so I am wonder if we can dockerize this project as we can make the deployment as faster as we can. I have not involve much in automation testing, but it seems the project docker-android is becoming popular in this field (but poor me, that project indeed running a Google Emulator inside, which is not well-perform/well-care on old-age machine).

With the purpose of Docker, we can either focus on developing application with less overheat from running a hypervisor or utilize much resources to run even more instances without duplicating the full hardware and kernel virtualization.

I have no experience on building Android OS, but I have some skills on Linux OS and Docker and I really want to help if someone could give me the direction.

How do you think?

PS: I don't know if posting then issue here is acceptable or not. If not, please give me an advice.

[cwhuang]

Wu Tian-Jian has given a talk about how to run android-x86 in a container in COSCUP 2018. Refer to

https://coscup.org/2018/tracks/android/ https://hackmd.io/ARZL71Y1REewmdWRFQtV-A?view

(some in Chinese, sorry)

Finally, please use android-x86 mailing list for such discussion.