On Jan 13, 11:58 am, Bruce Beare <bbea...@gmail.com> wrote: > That's covered in an earlier thread... but here's how: > source build/envsetup.sh > lunch full_x86-eng > make -j$JF droid > log 2>&1 > emulator > > Quite soon you will be able to download an SDK add-on with the IA > images for GB. > The ICS (and master branch also) images may be built from source... > I'm not at all > sure when the ICS emulator image will be available via the SDK add-on > mechanism. I would be more than happy with just a GB image as an SDK add-on (I guess similar to the GoogleTV add-on). For now, I guess I ll build from source and use that image to run emulator-x86.
Anirudh > > On Jan 13, 8:51 am, Anirudh Sivaraman <sk.anir...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > > > > > On Jan 13, 9:52 am, Bruce Beare <bbea...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > It's actually far faster than an ARM emulation (provided that you are > > > running on Linux with kvm enabled). > > > Last I heard, there was a bug in the released SDK's version that was > > > causing the emulator to have a very slow > > > start-up time. If it isn't already fixed in the master branch, I'll > > > see about getting the fix uploaded there. > > > > Note: you will also need to load in kvm (on Linux): > > > sudo modprobe kvm > > > sudo modprobe kvm_intel > > > Thanks for the prompt reply. I checked that I had kvm and kvm_intel > > loaded by doing an lsmod | grep kvm. I get this output : > > > kvm_intel 55857 0 > > kvm 336931 1 kvm_intel > > > I am guessing that means, my OS is setup to run it in KVM. > > > Also, I think you need to build x86 binaries from source for a > > particular Android version for this to work out on an emulated phone. > > Am I right here ? > > > Anirudh > > > > -Bruce > > > > On Jan 12, 2:20 pm, Anirudh Sivaraman <sk.anir...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > Hi > > > > > I read an earlier thread where it said the Android emulator was now > > > > capable > > > > of running x86 images, (for avd's such as the one used in Google-TV) but > > > > that it's performance was no better than conventional ARM emulation on > > > > ARM > > > > images. Has anything improved on this front , for instance, by > > > > exploiting > > > > hardware virtualization , as in VirtualBox ? For reference, the thread > > > > is > > > > :http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers/browse_thread/threa... > > > > > Anirudh- Hide quoted text - > > > - Show quoted text - -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
