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

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

My guess is yes, tho I have not specifically tried.  In terms of
inter-VM communications, olsrd should only need proper TCP/IP, which VMs
are pretty good at these days.

.hc

On 09/12/2012 04:30 PM, Ben West wrote:
> I do see the SDK would effectively replicate the same environment one sees
> under VirtualBox.  However, I am interested in VirtualBox, since I would
> want the Android node to talk to other VirtualBox VMs, e.g. OpenWRT or
> Ubuntu.  The basic goal is to use VirtualBox to (very crudely) simulate
> something like a 3-node mesh.
> 
> So, I would like to use the inter-VM networking features VirtualBox has.
> Does the Android SDK let you define an addressable IP for the virtual
> machine, directly accessible to the host OS?
> 
> On Wed, Sep 12, 2012 at 3:19 PM, Hans-Christoph Steiner <
> hans at guardianproject.info> 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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