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by ndom91 136 days ago
Is this available outside of Pixels? I still can't find it on my OnePlus 13 running Android 16 with Jan security updates
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The option exists on Samsung phones but is greyed out and crashes if you force it via adb. It is also marked as experimental.
I just tried it on my S25. I can enable the option an open the APK but can't download it because it fails to create the VM because the S25 does not support Non-protected VMs, so I may require a rooted device. I guess I will stick to Termux but interesting feature nonetheless
I believe it relies on some virtualization extensions Google's CPUs have, which most phone SoCs don't support.
It is buggy as hell anyway.