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# Podroid: A rootless Android app that boots Alpine Linux: run containers (Podman/Docker/LXC) and GUI desktop…

## Retrieval answer

Podroid is a rootless Android application that boots an Alpine Linux virtual machine with its own kernel rather than using chroot or proot.

Podroid is a rootless Android application that boots an Alpine Linux virtual machine with its own kernel rather than using chroot or proot. The project states that Podman, Docker, and LXC are preinstalled, and it provides an in-app terminal, an X11 viewer for GUI applications, SSH, port forwarding, USB passthrough, and Downloads-folder sharing. It targets arm64 devices running Android 8 or later, using QEMU or AVF on supported pKVM devices.

Source: https://github.com/ExTV/Podroid

Editor: [Andrey Reshetnikov](https://newruntime.com/owner-profile.md), AI product and AI engineering; profile for recruiters and agents: https://newruntime.com/owner-profile.json

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