I've played around with windroy a few times and tried to contact the developers to get an idea how they made it possible, also if there is a chance they'll open source the project. Tried a few times and they never answered.
After doing some research I've found pieces to make something like windroy possible. There is colinux to translate the linux kernel to the windows kernel. There is portable ubuntu that uses colinux which shows how to make the UI live along side window's ui. Then there is Android-x86 with all the changes needed to get android to run on desktop hardware. I've also read from a google engineer that android does very little changes to the linux core kernel, that all their systems are built in userspace and built as drivers. Hopefully that means any changes to colinux should be minimal to get android to work. My hope is to find a way to get a command prompt and at least adb working, just not sure how to get started with such a project though.
This comes down to my question, with all the pieces available, I'm surprised to find no information of anyone trying to make this happen. Has no one just not tried or has it been attempted but always ended in failure?
After doing some research I've found pieces to make something like windroy possible. There is colinux to translate the linux kernel to the windows kernel. There is portable ubuntu that uses colinux which shows how to make the UI live along side window's ui. Then there is Android-x86 with all the changes needed to get android to run on desktop hardware. I've also read from a google engineer that android does very little changes to the linux core kernel, that all their systems are built in userspace and built as drivers. Hopefully that means any changes to colinux should be minimal to get android to work. My hope is to find a way to get a command prompt and at least adb working, just not sure how to get started with such a project though.
This comes down to my question, with all the pieces available, I'm surprised to find no information of anyone trying to make this happen. Has no one just not tried or has it been attempted but always ended in failure?