Creating containers on hikey 960

susmithagankidi · April 9, 2018, 10:50am

The hikey 960 board can be flashed with the images given under linaro snapshots.
All of the images are android.

I would like to create LXC containers on the hikey960 board. Is there a way to do it.

Please suggest

jbding · April 7, 2018, 6:40am

Actually there are linux snapshots, however it’s a special distro called rpb, and you might have to build your own packages. There are also guides to install debian on hikey960. I haven’t tried it personally though.

susmithagankidi · April 7, 2018, 9:22pm

Linux snapshots are used for flashing an OS onto the board. But I would like to do an OS Level Virtualization on the Android OS

danielt · April 9, 2018, 10:50am

It would be expected to work providing you have enabled the right features in the kernel and built the LXC tools but I’ve never seen a step by step guide.

However I did notice this (including your comment which suggests you are already trying to build the LXC tools):

gist.github.com

https://gist.github.com/binkybear/18dab6ef15bfb8052f15c12c6b7777f3

gistfile1.txt

# Get Pre-reqs
apt-get install libattr1-dev git unzip make gcc automake pkg-config

# Get Android NDK
cd /root
mkdir -p build && cd build
wget http://dl.google.com/android/repository/android-ndk-r10e-linux-x86_64.zip -O /tmp/android-ndk-r10e-linux-x86_64.zip
unzip /tmp/android-ndk-r10e-linux-x86_64.zip -d /root/build

# Set paths

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It looks to me like these instructions are how to cross compile the LXC tools so the gist needs to run on x86/ubuntu not on Arm/Android.