A Google search "Android x86 Build" returns some interesting hits including some successes running in VMware.
Note that those probably only result in Android running like any other desktop OS, and more than likely does not result in a mobile device interface. Depending on the application you're building, it might or might not make a diff. Tony From: MCON Dev <[email protected]> Sent: Fri, 7/3/2009 11:34am To: [email protected] Subject: [android-beginners] Re: VMWare Image of the Android Emulator 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
