Hello everyone, On behalf of myself and the rest of the Cells team here at Columbia University, I would like to announce the release of the Cells open source project: info: http://cells.cs.columbia.edu/ code: https://cells-source.cs.columbia.edu/ Cells provides multiple, isolated, virtual Android instances runnning on a single device with support for smartphone and tablet hardware including 3D graphics, WiFi, touchscreen input, and more. This release targets the ASUS Nexus 7 (grouper) tablet, and supports essential Android drivers and subsystems such as Android alarms, frame buffer earlysuspend, wakelocks (suspend blockers), binder, and logger. Users can create, modify, delete, start, and stop instances of Android (Cells) using a command-line tool called "cell" through the standard Android adb shell. Users can switch between instances of Android using a key combo on their device (volume up + volume down on the Nexus 7), or through the cell command. We achieve all this by leveraging containers and namespaces in the kernel, and by building on recently released kernel patches to support device namespaces: https://github.com/Cellrox/devns-patches Cells is minimally intrusive to the Android open-source project (AOSP) code base with our Nexus 7 prototype requiring only a few small patches to the Jelly Bean 4.3 repositories. A list of patches applied on top of both AOSP, and the Nexus 7 Tegra kernel can be seen using a search on the Cells Gerrit Review site: https://cells-source.cs.columbia.edu/#/q/status:merged+topic:cells-nexus7,n,z We invite anyone interested to download, build, and play with Cells. We provide a guide on how to download, build, and contribute to the sources here: http://cells.cs.columbia.edu/build/ We invite you to join the project mailing list and encourage you to ask questions and discuss the sources on the list: cells@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/cells Best Regards, -Jeremy -- Cells: A Virtual Mobile Smartphone Architecture Proceedings of the 23rd ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles (SOSP 2011) [pdf]: http://systems.cs.columbia.edu/files/wpid-cells-sosp2011.pdf _______________________________________________ Containers mailing list Containers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/containers
