title: Running Buildozer from Bash on Ubuntu on Windows
body: <p>I've made the decision to enter the world of mobile app development. I've gotten pretty familiar with Kivy in order to do this. I'm running into wall after wall trying to deploy anything I make.</p>
  
  <p>First off, I am absolutely unable to create a working VM on my machine at home. I attempted to Enable virtualization in my machine's BIOS so I could use the 64-bit version of Ubuntu, and I can't find the option in the menus. The 32-bit option throws a fatal "kernel panic" error at installation.</p>
  
  <p>I installed the new Bash on Ubuntu on Windows utility in an attempt to use that to run the Buildozer tool to package my .apk file. However, Buildozer cannot be run as root. I get a security issue when trying to access the app directory (which lives on my Windows host's home drive) as a non-root user. On top of that, I've tried to move the files into the lxss folder, where the Ubuntu files seem to live.</p>
  
  <p>I'm running out of options entirely. My entire process is being stymied because of this one tool simply not cooperating. What can I do to get Buildozer to run properly knowing that I'm almost exclusively limited to a Windows machine?</p>
  
  <p>Edit: The VM image at <a href="https://kivy.org/#download" rel="nofollow">https://kivy.org/#download</a> will not run for me either. It gets hung up while booting.</p>