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

[Will Hawkins]

Ben,

I'd side with hc on this one. Unless there is a specific reason for
doing something different, I'd go with the emulator(s) included in the SDK.

Will

On 09/12/2012 04:19 PM, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
> 
> 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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