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Pretty sure it's still a VM even if there's a shared kernel, android is very different to a typical Linux distro
I don't know about all solutions but Linux Deploy for example creates a chroot environment and runs the Linux distribution from there. That means that the distribution's process are running alongside android's process on the same kernel. No translation, no abstraction, directly on the kernel that runs android. As far as the kernel is concerned, the android launcher and the Gnome environment are equal resident.
There needs to be a hypervisor to manage them though doesn't there? As far as I'm aware that's how type 1 hypervisors work but that's still a VM at the end of the day.
Either way I'm absolutely doing this. Does Linux deploy allow you to switch between Linux and Android UI freely or is Linux running in the background and need spice/vnc?
I don't think it counts as a hypervisor because it's basically running multiple user land environments on the same kernel. But yes, the video output is already used by android so if you need graphics it goes through vnc. Maybe that's possible to bypass on a routed device.