Hi Jeremy,
That sounds awesome, What would be the key use cases we can imagine with
this?
Regards,
Shridutt Kothari
Impetus Infotech Limited
shriduttkoth...@gmail.com
On Thursday, September 19, 2013 3:47:47 AM UTC+5:30, Jeremy C. Andrus wrote:
>
> 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:
> ce...@lists.cs.columbia.edu <javascript:>
> 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
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