Android Development

Daniel Fages announced on builddroid.org
Hi,You probably know the android-x86 project.
With the ICS release, the VirtualBox has disappeared. So, I proposed to work on the VirtualBox support for android-x86, thanks to the work I’ve done to support VBox on AOSP.

I’ve done the following work to support VirtualBox :

• As planned, much less work to do than AOSP support :
• Audio support needs some changes : enable the ‘PCM’ control
• Battery polling mechanism (also posted to the Android Gerrit)
• 3D Acceleration disabled (if not, the SystemUI activity keeps crashing)
• Ethernet enabled with DHCP-only (waiting for the ‘official Ethernet patch’ for ICS on android-x86)

You can find source patches here and can download a test ISO from here.

UPDATE: new build available android-x86-vm-20120130.iso.gz
I’ve uploaded a new version of the ISO based on android-x86 here : http://www.buildroid.org/Download/android-x86-vm-20120130.iso.gz

- Ethernet patch from Robill applied with some personal patch to fix DHCP

Ethernet seems to be working by default and is recognized as eth0 in the Settings ->Ethernet connection

I have tested on Lubuntu host and mouse worked only if i disabled mouse integration

Here is one video on how to install it on Ubuntu and Virtualbox