[BRLTTY] Android and SSH/Terminal

[Sebastian Humenda]

Hi

Dave Mielke schrieb am 18.06.2026, 23:50 -0400:
>Thanks, Jason. I was unaware of this but have now checked it out. It's very cool.
>
>Yes, it's a Debian-based virtual machine. Google introduced it in Android 15
>and has been improving it ever since. They clearly label it as experimental
>so keep this in mind.

Thanks for your step-by-step instructions. FYI, in case somebody else stumbles
over this: your vendor needs to enable the respective capabilities. E.g. I get
when starting the terminal:

Error code: java.lang.UnsupportedOperationException: Non-protected VMs are not supported on this device.
	at android.system.virtualmachine.VirtualMachineConfig$Builder.setProtectedVm(VirtualMachineConfig.java:1219)
	at com.android.virtualization.terminal.ConfigJson.toConfigBuilder(ConfigJson.kt:83)
	at com.android.virtualization.terminal.VmLauncherService.doStart(VmLauncherService.kt:211)
	at com.android.virtualization.terminal.VmLauncherService.access$doStart(VmLauncherService.kt:67)
	at com.android.virtualization.terminal.VmLauncherService$onStartCommand$1.run(VmLauncherService.kt:127)
	at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1100)
	at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:624)
	at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:1572)

	This is android 16 with a half-year old device.

Cheers
Sebastian
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