Running Android on my own hypervisor — what I learned in one month. 11 partitions, 1.7GB sparse images.

I've been building IONA OS — a sovereign operating system written entirely in Rust — for the past 13 years.

This month, I decided to run Android on it.

Not as a virtual machine, not as an emulator, but as a real guest running on my own hypervisor, written from scratch, in Rust, in Ring -1 (EL2).

Here's how I did it.

Why run Android on a custom hypervisor?