How to access an instance¶
In some cases, it might be necessary to access an individual instance for debugging reasons.
You can do this on the command line with the amc
command.
Access an instance with amc
¶
The amc
command provides simple shell access to any instance managed by AMS. To access a specific instance you only need its ID:
amc shell <id>
This command opens a bash shell inside the instance. To access the nested Android container, use the anbox-shell
command inside the new shell. If you combined the anbox-shell
command with amc exec
, you can get direct access to the Android container:
amc exec <id> -- anbox-shell
If you only want to watch the Android log output, use the following command:
amc exec <id> -- anbox-shell logcat
amc shell
and amc exec
open various possibilities for automation use cases. See the help output of the commands for further details.