Comment by fulafel
6 hours ago
Apparently it's about software, not hardware - Qualcomm recommends running Android under a virtual machine (which lacks nested virtualization support).
6 hours ago
Apparently it's about software, not hardware - Qualcomm recommends running Android under a virtual machine (which lacks nested virtualization support).
IIRC Qualcomm smartphone SoCs have always run some kind of hypervisor, I believe it's to allow partitioning of the CPU cores with the modem/DSP.
They used to (mid-late 2000s) use an L4 derivative ("REX"?), with the more recent chips (including the 'X' series for PCs) using their homegrown "Gunyah" hypervisor (https://github.com/quic/gunyah-hypervisor)
Is this for real? Do you have any more info on this? It seems crazy to me given how popular their chips are and how many problems I’d imagine this creates
It shouldn't be problematic if the processor supports it well. For example modern Windows is always running as a VM and people are barely aware of that.
That’s a good point, I forgot windows typically runs on top of hyperV
Using an S24 here and yeah, not available with Android 16
But the S24 wasn't Qualcomm but Exynos. Weird.