Images

An image represents the Anbox Cloud image available in the AMS node. An image is the base for an instance, which contains all necessary components like Anbox or the Android root file system. The image type can be container or virtual machine.

Possible image statuses

The following table lists the different statuses that an image can have depending on its state and what each status means:

Image status	Description
initializing	The image is currently being created.
created	The image was uploaded to AMS but not yet available on all LXD nodes.
available	The image is present on the remote but not in the LXD cluster.
queued	The image operation is queued for a download.
active	The image is available on all LXD nodes.
deleted	The image has been deleted and no longer available for use.
error	The image has encountered an error.
unknown	A possible error occurred and the real state of the image cannot be determined.

If you encounter the error or the unknown status, file a bug.

Image variants

Anbox Cloud provides two variants of images that use different Android execution environments:

• Images with containerized Android (jammy:*) run Android directly in the LXD container and support the full application model, addons, and platform plugins.

• Images with virtualized Android (resolute:*-cf:*) run Android inside a virtual machine within the LXD instance.

The image variant determines which execution environment is used. See Android execution environments for an explanation of the two environments and Image types reference for a detailed feature comparison.