Date: Fri, 14 Aug 2020 13:36:21 -0500 From: Valeri Galtsev <galtsev@kicp.uchicago.edu> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Complete idiots guide to virtualize Android with bhyve Message-ID: <558de385-08de-935d-4bce-2ef8d19cd77b@kicp.uchicago.edu> In-Reply-To: <e24788a8-18a9-38cb-e289-e9b98b4bf72a@netfence.it> References: <CAJ5UdcO32O5DnRDRFTQ0T4cZT4_otgJgMmcGxDTGhzptq-ORrQ@mail.gmail.com> <2FpLnblcS8dY17rDqJi-ACKQ4qXa5A6M7LZjQ2xv79zjqXLj9-jCTMZes_SU1glRZmJ8BtpIp5IJDT0dBNBq5fWf_6vBDexQ_UqivFWS7Hk=@dstev.xyz> <20200805091331.4b52af5c@archlinux> <e24788a8-18a9-38cb-e289-e9b98b4bf72a@netfence.it>
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On 2020-08-14 11:01, Andrea Venturoli wrote: > On 2020-08-05 09:13, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > >> it doesn't make sense to install an operating system that doesn't >> fit the users needs and then to emulate a mobile phone on that >> operating system, to run the required applications. That is the most >> worst mismanagement possible in the first place. > > Well, I think there are situation in which virtualizing Android does > make sense. > I need a desktop system 99% of the time, but I have an Android app (*) > that I'd need to run occasionally. > > (*) Not Zoom. It's an app that shouldn't probably exist in the first > place, but so it is. > > > > >> You are using an operating system not providing what you actually >> need, > > No, I'm using an operating system which gives me 99% of what I need. > > > >> so to workaround the wrong choice done in the first place, you >> consider to use a virtual machine, but not to run the most useful guest >> for your purpose, instead you consider to try the most freakish >> "solution". > > No again. > Really. > Unfortunately that app is available for Android and iOS, so it's not a > matter of "freak". > > > >> Why not running iOS or iPadOS as virtualbox guest? > > Licensing issues, I guess. > Is it possible to run those OSes freely? > You are absolutely correct. Apple allows to run their OSes on Apple hardware only. Period. Valeri > > > > > To come up with something costructive, I've never run Android on bhyve, > but I have on VirtualBox: performance is horrible, there are no guest > additions, but it works for an occasional use. > > > > bye > av. > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" -- ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Valeri Galtsev Sr System Administrator Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics University of Chicago Phone: 773-702-4247 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
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