Android 13 enables virtual machines with Windows and Linux
Android is already a flexible platform, but it seems that power users will get even more flexibility with the next major update. Thanks to Android 13, phones like the Pixel 6 are able to run virtual machines for Windows and Linux with better performance and less effort.
Android developer Danny Lin tweeted over the weekend that he was able to run "full virtual machines" on the Pixel 6 thanks to the first Android 13 Developer Preview. This includes running virtual machines with "near native" performance of various Linux distributions as well as Windows 11.
How is that possible? It's because Android 13 offers better handling of virtualization. Android 13 supports a shared hypervisor in the form of KVM - a kernel-based virtual machine.
Obviously, Google's work has also paid off. Lin says performance on Windows 11 on the Pixel 6 is "decent" with Google Tensor, although there's no graphics acceleration. It could even play Doom!
That doesn't necessarily mean you'll be able to boot into Windows or Linux on a whim when Android 13 comes out in its final version. Google uses this enhanced virtualization primarily for security and DRM handling reasons.
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