This release adds support for the experimental virtual machine management app introduced in Android 15 QPR2. It currently only provides support for managing a single VM and interacting with it via a WebView-based terminal. Android is in the process of adding support for graphics and GPU acceleration for a future release. For now, it’s only available in developer options due to being highly experimental. We don’t recommend using developer options on a production device, but you can temporarily enable it to turn on this feature and turn them back off without it being disabled like most developer options. The data inside it should currently be treated as disposable rather than relying on it not losing it from a bug or a backwards incompatible update. We plan to support choosing other guest operating systems beyond the Debian-based image provided by Android along with taking far more advantage of the virtualization infrastructure.
Tags:
- 2025030900 (Pixel 6, Pixel 6 Pro, Pixel 6a, Pixel 7, Pixel 7 Pro, Pixel 7a, Pixel Tablet, Pixel Fold, Pixel 8, Pixel 8 Pro, Pixel 8a, Pixel 9, Pixel 9 Pro, Pixel 9 Pro XL, Pixel 9 Pro Fold, emulator, generic, other targets)
Changes since the 2025030800 release:
- SystemUI: re-enable migrate_clocks_to_blueprint and communal_hub flags with workarounds for upstream issues when using standard AOSP UI components instead of Pixel OS components
- Android Debug Bridge: fix upstream crash caused by a race condition that sometimes unregistered a closed file descriptor from epoll
- Sandboxed Google Play compatibility layer: fix issue breaking RPC transactions which impacts the Terminal app
- Sandboxed Google Play compatibility layer: add implementation of isGoogleLocationAccuracyEnabled() to the location rerouting implementation always returning true to fix compatibility with apps checking for it
- Sandboxed Google Play compatibility layer: fix definition of IStatusCallback.onCompletion() to slightly improve performance
- allow Terminal app to use WebView JIT since it requires WebAssembly
- kernel (6.6): update to latest GKI LTS branch revision including update to 6.6.80