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

[Ben West]

I'm glad that communication b/w Android emulators might be possible.  My
preference for VirtualBox is due to its ability to have multiple VMs with
different OSs, which I am assuming the Android emulator would not do.
 Still, I can understand that running Android under VB is not preferred
when an emulator already exists.

That said, the degree of functionality I'd need for Android + Commotion App
tentatively under VirtualBox is pretty minimal, since this question is
related to testing rather than development.  I.e. I'd really only need to
boot Android, launch the Commotion App and/or launch a browser.

On Wed, Sep 12, 2012 at 3:45 PM, Will Hawkins <
hawkinsw at opentechinstitute.org> wrote:

> 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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Ben West
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