The next thing I see in logcat for the generic ARM build is SurfaceFlinger
opening up EGL. Could it be hanging there on generic_x86?

BTW, sorry for the newbie questions. Once I get rolling I'll be good.

On Sat, May 29, 2010 at 4:58 PM, Doug Schaefer <[email protected]> wrote:

> Forwarding back to group where we ended up.
>
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Doug Schaefer <[email protected]>
> Date: Sat, May 29, 2010 at 4:57 PM
> Subject: Re: [android-porting] Re: VirtualBox Black Screen
> To: Ashwin Bihari <[email protected]>
>
>
> Could be, I don't see any Java apps starting up. I'll dig a bit more and
> see what I can find.
>
>
> On Sat, May 29, 2010 at 4:27 PM, Ashwin Bihari <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> A lack of page flipping is not the problem..but that's fairly early in
>> the Android startup process, there should be a lot more messages after
>> as well..if you don't get that, Zygote, the startup application, is
>> having an issue getting the rest of the system up..
>>
>> -- Ashwin
>>
>>
>>
>> On Sat, May 29, 2010 at 4:21 PM, Doug Schaefer <[email protected]> wrote:
>> > I'm doing the generic-x86 build as per the instructions
>> > in build/target/board/generic_x86/README.txt.
>> > Here's my report filtering out debug messages. gralloc does report a
>> warning
>> > about page flipping not supported. Could that be it?
>> > I/vold    (   47): Android Volume Daemon version 2.0
>> > I/        (   49): ServiceManager: 0x90ccd08
>> > W/AudioHardwareInterface(   49): Using stubbed audio hardware. No sound
>> will
>> > be produced.
>> > I/CameraService(   49): CameraService started: pid=49
>> > I/AudioFlinger(   49): AudioFlinger's thread 0x90cd320 ready to run
>> > I/SamplingProfilerIntegration(   48): Profiler is disabled.
>> > I/Zygote  (   48): Preloading classes...
>> > I/Zygote  (   48): ...preloaded 1939 classes in 1244ms.
>> > I/Zygote  (   48): Preloading resources...
>> > I/Zygote  (   48): ...preloaded 48 resources in 108ms.
>> > I/Zygote  (   48): ...preloaded 15 resources in 4ms.
>> > I/dalvikvm(   48): Splitting out new zygote heap
>> > I/dalvikvm(   48): System server process 58 has been created
>> > I/Zygote  (   48): Accepting command socket connections
>> > E/BatteryService(   58): acOnlinePath not found
>> > E/BatteryService(   58): usbOnlinePath not found
>> > E/BatteryService(   58): batteryStatusPath not found
>> > E/BatteryService(   58): batteryHealthPath not found
>> > E/BatteryService(   58): batteryPresentPath not found
>> > E/BatteryService(   58): batteryCapacityPath not found
>> > E/BatteryService(   58): batteryVoltagePath not found
>> > E/BatteryService(   58): batteryTemperaturePath not found
>> > E/BatteryService(   58): batteryTechnologyPath not found
>> > I/sysproc (   58): Entered system_init()
>> > I/sysproc (   58): ServiceManager: 0x8d93838
>> > I/SurfaceFlinger(   58): SurfaceFlinger is starting
>> > I/SurfaceFlinger(   58): SurfaceFlinger's main thread ready to run.
>> > Initializing graphics H/W...
>> > W/gralloc (   58): page flipping not supported (yres_virtual=600,
>> > requested=1200)
>> > I/gralloc (   58): using (fd=22)
>> > I/gralloc (   58): id           = VESA VGA
>> > I/gralloc (   58): xres         = 800 px
>> > I/gralloc (   58): yres         = 600 px
>> > I/gralloc (   58): xres_virtual = 800 px
>> > I/gralloc (   58): yres_virtual = 600 px
>> > I/gralloc (   58): bpp          = 16
>> > I/gralloc (   58): r            = 11:5
>> > I/gralloc (   58): g            =  5:6
>> > I/gralloc (   58): b            =  0:5
>> > I/gralloc (   58): width        = 127 mm (160.000000 dpi)
>> > I/gralloc (   58): height       = 95 mm (160.421051 dpi)
>> > I/gralloc (   58): refresh rate = 83.43 Hz
>> > On Sat, May 29, 2010 at 2:52 PM, Ashwin Bihari <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>> >>
>> >> What does logcat report as happening?
>> >>
>> >> Regards
>> >> -- Ashwin
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> On Sat, May 29, 2010 at 11:27 AM, Doug Schaefer <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>> >> > 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?
>> >> >
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