> consumer apps on any device

I love sandboxes, do not want to have random application X accessing my $HOME at its own pleasure.

as far as I've understood, Chrome OS already uses containers for running Android apps. This new feature would allow other applications too.

ChromeOS is already running containers. I personally run GNU/Linux in a container on ChromeOS. Just install GNUroot or termux. I then use XSDL in a container for display. They are both Android apps.

The problem is they use a fake Chroot so somethings do not work. Here Google would use the KVM to soleve that issue.

BTW, Google does run all Android apps in a single container. Plus there is a weird issue where the IP is hardcoded in the container which if use the same IP elsewhere will cause issues.