On: Fully working DalvikVM on Xubuntu 12.04

What is the end goal of this effort? Running Android on GNU/Linux without a VM? Using Dalvik as a replacement for the usual JVM?

Running Android apps on the Ubuntu Phone?

I'd imagine that running Android apps on (touch-screen) laptops running full Ubuntu would be higher on the list.

This makes sense for the ubuntu phone coming out.

Wouldn't that require a lot more than dalvik? I am thinking, at least, of the IPC and permissions system.

The IPC is OpenBinder, which has been out there a long time:

http://www.angryredplanet.com/~hackbod/openbinder/docs/html/