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

[Will Hawkins]

Hey Ben,

What about this?
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4044479/comunication-between-android-emulators

The usual disclaimer applies: I've not tried this so it might be
worthless! :-)

Will

On 09/12/2012 04:31 PM, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
> 
> 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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