I imagine running a VM / Container with KODI on a VM server and being able to access it from any low-end device or SmartTV running Apollo/Moonlight.
This can probably be done with a conventional Linux distro, but not LibreELEC, as we use a zero-copy display pipeline. This means media is decoded from file/stream and each frame is stored in RAM using a (buffer) format suitable for rendering/output; so each stage in the display pipeline (Kodi, ffmpeg, DRM compositing, etc.) simply passes a pointer to the buffer containing the data instead of copying the data (hence zero-copy). The side-effect of this is that there is no opportunity to 'grab' the frame (as it's a pointer to data, not actual data) for display, which is how everything from VNC to fancier video streaming server capabilities obtain the frames to stream. This is the status-quo for 'Generic' (using GBM) and all ARM SoC hardware that LE supports. Only the Generic-Legacy image (using Xorg) is different, but that image is likely to be EOL at some point in the not-distant future so wouldn't be worth the time/effort of integrating around. Running LE in a VM is possible but then responsibility for streaming frames passes to the host OS and no changes are needed in the LE guest OS. NB: LE is quite intentionally a 'dumb-client' distro and this is our niche in the Linux/Kodi ecosystem. There's no real interest from project staff to diverge from that.
