On Sat, May 29, 2010 at 10:35 AM, Doug Schaefer <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hey gang, first time poster :). > > There hasn't been much talk about running Android in VirtualBox in this > group lately. But I saw the kernel_config_VirtualBox and thought I'd give it > a try. I'm using the new VirtualBox 3.2. After adding the AHCI SATA driver > to the config and building my kernel (android-2.6.32 branch). I was able to > successfully run the installer.vdi and install into my main virtual disk. > > However when starting that up, I see the regular Linux boot messages fly by > and then it fires up with a black screen and all disk and network activity > stops. I'm not sure how to get any information out of the VM at that point. > I can poke around in the installer after it's finished. I did notice that > there were no fb devices, but that may be a red herring since the GUI > doesn't try to come up in that mode. > > Has anyone been able to get this work lately or am I on untrodden ground. > On the good news front, I have been able to adb connect to it and dmesg and logcat doesn't seem to report any errors. gralloc properly reports a VESA 800x600 screen. Maybe the screen is supposed to be black? -- unsubscribe: [email protected] website: http://groups.google.com/group/android-porting
