podcvd

podcvd

Note: Currently podcvd is very unstable and it's under development. Please be aware to use.

podcvd is CLI binary which aims to provide identical interface as cvd, but creating each Cuttlefish instance group on a container instance not to interfere host environment of each other.

User setup guide

Execute following commands to register apt repository containing cuttlefish-podcvd package on your machine.

sudo install -m 0755 -d /etc/apt/keyrings
sudo curl -fsSL https://us-apt.pkg.dev/doc/repo-signing-key.gpg -o /etc/apt/keyrings/android-cuttlefish-artifacts.asc
sudo chmod a+r /etc/apt/keyrings/android-cuttlefish-artifacts.asc
echo \
  "deb [arch=$(dpkg --print-architecture) signed-by=/etc/apt/keyrings/android-cuttlefish-artifacts.asc] \
  https://us-apt.pkg.dev/projects/android-cuttlefish-artifacts android-cuttlefish-nightly main" | \
  sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/android-cuttlefish-artifacts.list > /dev/null
sudo apt update

Execute following commands to install cuttlefish-podcvd and setup your machine.

sudo apt install cuttlefish-podcvd
/usr/lib/cuttlefish-common/bin/cuttlefish-podcvd-prerequisites.sh

Now it's available to execute podcvd help or podcvd create as you could execute cvd help or cvd create after installing cuttlefish-base.

Development guide

Manually build podcvd binary

Execute go build ./cmd/podcvd from container/src/podcvd directory.

Manually build cuttlefish-podcvd debian package

tools/buildutils/cw/README.md#container describes how to build cuttlefish-podcvd debian package.

Execute sudo apt install ./cuttlefish-podcvd_*.deb to install it on your machine.