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So why does my android phone not allow sudo or chroot, and when I root it my bank application stops working, citing the EU payment service regulations? Virtualization is not enabled too, even though the cpu supports it.


Recent Pixel devices support Android pKVM nested virtualization, with optional 2-way isolation, https://android-developers.googleblog.com/2023/12/virtual-ma...

  Even if Android is compromised all the way up to (and including) the host kernel, the isolated VM remains uncompromised
This allows virtualized Linux VMs on supported Pixels, running alongside Android, https://www.xda-developers.com/nestbox-hands-on/ & https://www.esper.io/blog/android-dessert-bites-13-virtualiz...


When will that come to non-Pixel devices?


Possibly when Qualcomm brings Oryon (with silicon support for nested virtualization) from laptops to smartphones in late 2024, https://www.androidauthority.com/qualcomm-snapdragon-oryon-c... & https://www.qualcomm.com/developer/blog/2024/01/gunyah-hyper...

> we have replaced pKVM with Gunyah Hypervisor Software – our own, more versatile hypervisor – on our Qualcomm Technologies’ chipsets. With Gunyah, we can use one hypervisor across use cases as varied as automotive, mobile broadband, IoT and wearables. We’ve upstreamed Gunyah for general use by the Android community.


Chroot works fine though


No, it doesn't. It requires root, and that breaks all the apps.




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