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. On Jan 13, 8:51 am, Anirudh Sivaraman <[email protected]> wrote: > On Jan 13, 9:52 am, Bruce Beare <[email protected]> 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 <[email protected]> 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 [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-developers?hl=en
