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From: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>
Subject: Re: Android on Xen
Date: Wed, 21 Oct 2015 09:56:25 +0100
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On Tue, 2015-10-20 at 16:20 -0400, hanji unit wrote:
> Does anyone know if its possible to run an Android DomU on Xen without
> rooting Android?

You would at the very least need a kernel which supports the various Xen
drivers etc, which I think probably counts as a step beyond rooting.

Although having gotten a suitable kernel etc I can't see a reason why root 
would be needed in a domU. I'm not that familiar with the Android security
model, but I would imagine that the toolstack operations in dom0 (which
normally involve root on a regular Linux) would need something very close
to root access to be workable.

Ian.