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CI: run Android integration tests on ARM64 #4660
Description
Description
There are minor differences in Mono and native crash handling between x86_64 vs. arm64. Currently, we only run Android integration tests on ubuntu-latest-4-cores, which is x86_64. We should add arm64 if/when possible.
Failed attempts:
macos-xxx: M1/M2 do not support nested virtualization ❌
HVF error: HV_UNSUPPORTED
qemu-system-aarch64-headless: failed to initialize HVF: Invalid argument
WARNING | QEMU main loop exits abnormally with code 1
ubuntu-xxx: Doesn't work with QEMU (qemu-system-arm) ❌
Avd's CPU Architecture 'arm64' is not supported by the QEMU2 emulator on x86_64 host. System image must match the host architecture.
ubuntu-xxx-arm: Android Emulator not available on Linux ARM64 ❌
Install Android SDK
/usr/bin/sh -c \yes | sdkmanager --licenses > /dev/null
Installing latest build tools, platform tools, and platform.
/usr/bin/sh -c \sdkmanager --install 'build-tools;35.0.0' platform-tools 'platforms;android-34'> /dev/null
Installing latest emulator.
/usr/bin/sh -c \sdkmanager --install emulator --channel=0 > /dev/null
Warning: Failed to find package 'emulator'
Potential options:
- Mac M3: While the current
macos-15andmacos-26runners are M1, and some "large" runners are M2. Neither of them supports nested virtualization, but it should work starting with M3. So maybe this becomes feasible in the future, when GitHub adds M3+ runners...? - Linux ARM64: A gist found by random search suggests it might be possible to manually download AOSP emulators from ci.android.com.
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linear commentedon Oct 21, 2025
NET-507
jamescrosswell commentedon Oct 21, 2025
@jpnurmi I take it this is a suggestion for some time in the future then (not something we can action immediately)?
jpnurmi commentedon Oct 22, 2025
Indeed, it might not be doable for the time being