Apparently it's about software, not hardware - Qualcomm recommends running Android under a virtual machine (which lacks nested virtualization support).

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mcbridematt 5 hours ago | parent | next [-]

IIRC Qualcomm smartphone SoCs have always run some kind of hypervisor, I believe it's to allow partitioning of the CPU cores with the modem/DSP.

They used to (mid-late 2000s) use an L4 derivative ("REX"?), with the more recent chips (including the 'X' series for PCs) using their homegrown "Gunyah" hypervisor (https://github.com/quic/gunyah-hypervisor)

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superb_dev 8 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Is this for real? Do you have any more info on this? It seems crazy to me given how popular their chips are and how many problems I’d imagine this creates

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pierrec 5 hours ago | parent | next [-]

It shouldn't be problematic if the processor supports it well. For example modern Windows is always running as a VM and people are barely aware of that.

	▲	superb_dev 4 hours ago \| parent [-]
		That’s a good point, I forgot windows typically runs on top of hyperV

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asutor 8 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Using an S24 here and yeah, not available with Android 16

	▲	wolvoleo 4 hours ago \| parent [-]
		But the S24 wasn't Qualcomm but Exynos. Weird.