this is part of current changes to the SDK and the way multiple configurations are going to be supported concurrently in the near future.
if ANDROID_PRODUCT_OUT is defined in your environment, it should pick built system images automatically for you (you need to build these before launching the emulator though). Simply invoking a command like "choosecombo" should be enough to set ANDROID_PRODUCT_OUT if ANDROID_PRODUCT_OUT is not defined, then the emulator assumes you are using the SDK only (outside of the Android source tree) and expect to be given the name of a "virtual machine". An Android Virtual Machine is a recently introduced concept, it corresponds to a directory containing persistent images for the /data partition, the /cache partition, option mutable and persistent system.img etc... You can create/list/delete virtual machines on your host through the new "android" program. Alternatively, if you don't have a virtual machine created, and ANDROID_PRODUCT_OUT is not defined, you can get by by specifying on the command-line all disk images to use with -image, -kernel, -ramdisk, -data, etc... On Sun, Dec 21, 2008 at 1:50 PM, moontain <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > I downloaded the platform source code and completed a build. > When I trying to run the emulator with following command,error occurs. > $ ./out/host/darwin-x86/bin/emulator -system ./out/target/product/generic > -kernel ./prebuilt/android-arm/kernel/kernel-qemu -skindir > ./development/emulator/skins > > Below is the error message. > > emulator: ERROR: you must provide the name of a virtual machine to start > the emulator. > please see -help-vm for details. > > what's wrong with the command? what's the name of the virtual machine in > the case? > > I'm using Mac OS X v 10.4.11, XCode v2.5 > > Regards, > Moontain > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Beginners" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-beginners?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
