VMWare to replace the slow Android Emulator

Using VMWare to replace the slow Android Emulator

 November 20, 2014 android, vmware
http://visualgdb.com/tutorials/android/vmware/
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http://www.android-x86.org/download

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http://www.android-x86.org/documents/virtualboxhowto

Details

Config your VirtualBox like this:

• OS Type: Linux 2.6

• Base Memory: At least 256MB, 512MB is better.

• Video Memory: 8M

• CD/DVD-ROM image: eeepc.iso

• Sound device: change to Sound Blaster 16. ICH AC97 will not work. (if you have a solution, let us know)

• Network device: PCnet-Fast III, attached to NAT. You can also use bridged adapter, but you need a DHCP server in your environment.

Boot options

On the boot menu, please select the VESA mode item.

If you want to use higher resolution, you can edit the boot option by pressing TAB, change vga=788 (800x600) to vga=791 (1024x768) or vga=794 (1280x1024), and press Enter. You can also usevga=ask to see all available modes. But please note Android will only work under 16-bit mode.

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• Create two partitions by fdisk or cfdisk. Format them to ext3. Then reboot.

# cfdisk /dev/sda
# mdev -s
# mke2fs -j -L DATA /dev/sda1
# mke2fs -j -L SDCARD /dev/sda2

VMware

You have to change your virtual disk type to be IDE because the default type in VMware is SCSI, and Android-x86 kernel is not configured to support SCSI. You can follow these steps:

• Create a virtual machine.
• Edit virtual machine settings after the virtual machine created.
• Choose the hard disk and remove it.
• Add a hard disk to create a new virtual disk, then you can choose IDE as your virtual disk type.
• When finished, you can install android-x86 normally.

http://www.android-x86.org/documents/installhowto