VirtualBox Security Android-x86 4.0 graphic tutorial

VirtualBox Security Android-x86 4.0 graphic tutorial

Why are Android virtual machines much slower than iOS and WP7 virtual machines? The reason is as follows:

1. the Android Simulator simulates the ARM architecture (arm-eabi), while the target architecture of iOS and WP7 simulators is x86, in addition, the App running in the iOS simulator is also compiled into x86. In this way, the Android simulator requires some additional binary translation work.

2. the Android simulator uses the full system mode of QEMU, that is, it needs to start the entire GUEST system during simulation and initialize various analog devices. On the contrary, the simulators for iOS and WP7 are only user-mode simulations.

3. In the Android simulator, you also need to run a Dalvik VM to execute the bytecodes of the Android application.

To sum up, one of the main reasons for the slow speed is that the virtual machine is not running on x86 but simulating ARM. Is there a way to get an x86 Android?

The answer is of course there is --- Open-Source Project Android-x86, this ox B Open-Source Project will be transplanted to the Android x86 platform, the system does not need to be simulated into ARM, in this way, you can directly install Android on a PC or virtual machine to run smoothly.

Everything is ready, only owe Dongfeng, next I will talk about the whole process of using Android-X86 and VirtualBox to build a mobile phone Development Simulator

1: first download Android-x86 system image file http://www.android-x86.org/download

Here to mention a little, if you want to get the latest 4.0, please download this version of android-x86-4.0-eeepc-20111209.iso, other bug, will continue after the boot crash, pay attention to is 09

2. Create a virtual machine on VirtualBox

Select Linux as the operating system and Linux 2.6 as the version

Android-x86 Virtual Machine installation configuration graphic tutorial

Create virtual hard disk

Select VDI first.

Next:

OK after creation

Some configurations are required after the creation:

If you want to hear the sound, set it as follows:

Key Nic settings:

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