Two questions: Android TV image and live snapshots

LXC
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Hi there, I would like to ask two questions regarding LXC, and this seemed like the more appropriate place to do so even though this project seems to have moved to Canonical.

I would like to ask:

  1. There doesn’t seem to be any Android TV image available. Is it possible to run Android TV (or any other version of Android) as an LXC container/VM?
  2. Is the live snapshotting feature provided by LXC safe to use while the container is running on non-COW filesystems, in my case, Ext4, or would it cause a diagonal snapshot?

To provide a little bit of context of question number 1, I am running a Raspberry Pi behind my TV which hosts my Jellyfin instance. In another room, I am running Android TV and installed the Jellyfin client in there, and everything works pretty well.
However, in the TV in the same room, we have a not-so-smart TV, and I was thinking of connecting the RPI to the TV with the HDMI cable, and install Android TV on a container/VM, effectively turning it into a smart TV without buying new equipment.

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It seems to me Anbox and Waydroid (based on anbox) are more appropriate to your scenario, where you may be able to better install the apks related to AndroidTV

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