If your VM is headless (i.e. console in/out is the primary way of interacting with it), you can spawn it by passing a JSON config file to the VirtualizationService via the vm
tool on a rooted AVF-enabled device. If your device is attached over ADB, you can run:
cat > vm_config.json <<EOF { "kernel": "/data/local/tmp/kernel", "initrd": "/data/local/tmp/ramdisk", "params": "rdinit=/bin/init" } EOF adb root adb push <kernel> /data/local/tmp/kernel adb push <ramdisk> /data/local/tmp/ramdisk adb push vm_config.json /data/local/tmp/vm_config.json adb shell "/apex/com.android.virt/bin/vm run /data/local/tmp/vm_config.json"
The vm
command also has other subcommands for debugging; run /apex/com.android.virt/bin/vm help
for details.
By installing Wayland compositor and VNC backend, you can enable graphical environment. One of the options is sway
, wayvnc
and xwayland
(if necessary).
sudo apt install sway wayvnc xwayland WLR_BACKENDS=headless WLR_LIBINPUT_NO_DEVICES=1 sway WAYLAND_DISPLAY=wayland-1 wayvnc 0.0.0.0 # or use port forwarding
And then, connect to 192.168.0.2:5900(or localhost:5900) with arbitrary VNC client. Or, novnc
(https://github.com/novnc/noVNC/releases). For novnc
you need to install novnc
, and run <novnc_path>/utils/novnc_proxy
, and then connect to http://192.168.0.2:6080/vnc.html
(or localhost:6080
if port forwarding is enabled.)
weston
with VNC backend might be another option, but it isn't available in Debian package repository for bookworm.
If the file /sdcard/linux/virglrenderer
exists on the device, it enables VirGL for VM. This requires enabling ANGLE for the Terminal app. (https://chromium.googlesource.com/angle/angle.git/+/HEAD/doc/DevSetupAndroid.md)