Here’s a fun new feature of Android 13: working virtualization support. Google is building virtualization into Android for its own reasons, but Android developer kdrag0n has commandeered the feature to boot ARM Windows 11 and desktop Linux. The developer even got the Windows version of Doom running, all inside a VM on the Pixel 6.
kdrag0n says that Android 13 has “full KVM functionality” at “near-native performance.” You need root to enable the functionality, which doesn’t support GPU acceleration. The functionality also doesn’t support nested virtualization, so while you can now run Android on Windows and Windows on Android, making an infinitely nested OS turducken is out of the question.
