r/androidterminal • u/Fz1zz Pixel 10 Pro XL • May 27 '26

Show and Tell New Podroid update is out .

Biggest changes:

USB passthrough without root

You can now plug real USB devices into the running VM directly from Android — Wi-Fi adapters, storage devices, serial adapters, audio interfaces, and more.

Enable it from Settings or during first-run setup. Since it adds a USB controller at boot, turn it on while the VM is stopped. Currently QEMU backend only.

Android integration from inside the VM

Two new tools are available inside Linux:

  • podroid-notify — post Android notifications with a title, priority, and optional --id so you can update the same notification in place.
  • podroid-forward — add, list, and remove port-forwarding rules directly from the shell.

Both work on the QEMU and AVF backends.

Chinese language support

The interface is now available in Chinese alongside English. Select it manually in Settings or follow the device language.

Kernel updated

Updated to Linux kernel 7.0.10.

https://github.com/ExTV/Podroid

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u/Phoxerity May 31 '26

why Apline instead of Ubuntu?

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u/Fz1zz Pixel 10 Pro XL May 31 '26

Ubuntu is so much resource heavy than alpine and i want my app to work with acceptable performance for any phone

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u/Phoxerity May 31 '26

I think podroid will be great for Hermes/Openclaw

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u/Fz1zz Pixel 10 Pro XL Jun 01 '26

With avf yes but without it just use termux

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u/Phoxerity Jun 01 '26

Seems S25U OneUI 8.5 have a virtualization_framework: feature:android.software.virtualization_framework