Gotcha!!! I wonder if google would take a feature request on arm. I would like to run the emulator on a different machine than the local development machine. Just like I get to do on vmware. More over emulators should ideally run on vmware. Lesser learning curve for large teams. Siddharth
On Fri, Jul 3, 2009 at 11:00 PM, Tony Su <[email protected]> wrote: > > Still, > If someone wanted to put the work into it, the problem is solvable. > > The example to look at is Microsoft's Visual Studio, launching the VS > mobile device emulators don't use inordinate resources. This capability is > likely built into VS because when you launch the MS standalone mobile device > emulators, they're resource hogs, even more so than what we're seeing with > the Android emulator. > > So, hard to say who should be looking at this... Eclipse? Google? > > Also, I don't know that it's necessary for the Android emulator to emulate > ARM hardware, I assume that Android natively should be able to run on x86 as > well (especially because of its Linux roots)... Developers like ourselves > only care what is exposed for us to access which means the Android APIs. > > So, maybe it does make sense to investigate Android in VMware. > > Tony > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Disconnect <[email protected]> > Sent: Fri, 7/3/2009 8:57am > To: [email protected] > Subject: [android-beginners] Re: VMWare Image of the Android Emulator > > > VMware emulates X86. Android emulator emulates arm. So.. no. You could > make it worse by emulating a linux system running the android emulator > though, that'd be funny. > > On Fri, Jul 3, 2009 at 10:18 AM, MCON Dev<[email protected]> wrote: > > Is it possible to create a vmware image of the emulator ? After all its a > > operating system image after all. If yes, it would prove very fruitful. > > Currently the emulator takes on a lot of processing power of the > development > > machine. Making the development really painful experience. The more > complex > > the product becomes the more difficult the development. > > Thanks > > Siddharth > > > > > > > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
