[Commotion-dev] Tips on getting Android OS (and Commotion) working under VirtualBox

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

Why not just download the Android SDK, which comes with the Android
emulator, which is just a thin wrapper of QEMU.  There are ARM and x86
emulator images included in the SDK.

.hc

On 09/12/2012 03:55 PM, Ben West wrote:
> Hi All (and more specifically Hans-Christoph),
> 
> My own naive Googling suggests one is quite capable of getting Android up
> and running under VirtualBox, e.g.
> 
> Ice Cream Sandwich v4.0:
> http://www.vmlite.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=68:android&catid=17:vmlitenewsrotator
> Honeycomb v3.2 (via Android x86):
> https://code.google.com/p/android-x86/downloads/list?can=4
> Gingerbread v2.3 (via Android x86):
> http://www.android-x86.org/releases/build-20110828
> 
> It looks like Android x86 is a popular source, but I am curious to hear
> about other list members' experience using Android under VirtualBox.  In
> particular, I read that some examples of Android VMs do not support an
> Ethernet interface, presumably meaning the VM would have no access to the
> outside.
> 
> 
> 
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