[ale] How do I run Android in a Virtualbox VM

[Ron Frazier (ALE)]

PS  I just got the android emulator working inside a mint vm inside 
windows on a dual core laptop.  Now THAT'S slow!

Simulated tablet boot time was 4 minutes.  Tablet responses to clicks 
was 4 sec.  Time to launch the web browser was 35 sec.

Doubt if I'll use it that way.  I may try to move over to my desktop and 
activate cpu virtualization, as well as more ram and disk space for the vm.

It's pretty cool to be able to simulate a tablet on the pc at all though.

Ron


On 10/2/2013 4:08 PM, Ron Frazier (ALE) wrote:
> I haven't tried bluestacks.  I might, but I think an emulator or vm 
> might be better for me, since I want to go through an entire app 
> download and setup procedure from download to operation, as an android 
> user would experience it.  This might work for observing individual 
> apps, so it's on my possibles list.
>
> Anyone using this product might want to look at their terms.  My eyes 
> glazed over after 2 paragraphs.  But it looks like they have some 
> "interesting" terms regarding them tracking what you do and 
> potentially sending your phone text messages, etc.  I would read it 
> more thoroughly if I was going to use the product.
>
> http://www.bluestacks.com/terms.html
>
> Sincerely,
>
> Ron
>
>
> On 9/30/2013 10:27 PM, Michael Potter wrote:
>> I do android development and I NEVER use the emulator with the 
>> development tools.
>> It is just __way__ too slow.
>>
>> I have not tried this:
>> http://www.bluestacks.com/
>>
>> Anyone have experience with that?
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Sep 30, 2013 at 8:59 PM, Alex Carver 
>> <agcarver+ale at acarver.net <mailto:agcarver+ale at acarver.net>> wrote:
>>
>>     It doesn't help.  My work machine is a dual Xeon E5-2667 (6 cores
>>     each,
>>     2.9GHz) with 64 GB of RAM and it still takes about 25 minutes to
>>     compile
>>     and start the emulator.  If the image is saved, it takes about 6
>>     minutes
>>     to start.  Run speed is also incredibly sluggish, taking about 10-15
>>     seconds to register a click/tap on the virtual screen.
>>
>>     On 9/30/2013 17:44, Barlow, Jim D wrote:
>>     > This might be of interest if speed is an issue:
>>     >
>>     >
>>     http://software.intel.com/en-us/articles/speeding-up-the-android-emulator-on-intel-architecture
>>     >
>>     > As long as you don't mind an Android x86 implementation.
>>     >
>>     >
>>     > -          Jim
>>     >
>>     > On Mon, Sep 30, 2013 at 9:31 AM, Charles Shapiro
>>     <hooterpincher at gmail.com
>>     <mailto:hooterpincher at gmail.com><mailto:hooterpincher at gmail.com
>>     <mailto:hooterpincher at gmail.com>>> wrote:
>>     > The Android emulator works well but needs a lot of machine
>>     resources.  It runs pretty slowly even on my Core I5 laptop.
>>     > -- CHS
>>     >
>>     > Which would make it a strictly time accurate emulator, wouldn't
>>      it :^) ?
>>     >
>>     > -- David
>>     >
>>     >
>>
>>
>>
>> -- 
>> Michael Potter
>>   Tapp Solutions, LLC
>>   Replatform Technologies, LLC
>> +1 770 815 6142  ** Atlanta ** michael at potter.name 
>> <mailto:michael at potter.name>  ** www.linkedin.com/in/michaelpotter 
>> <http://www.linkedin.com/in/michaelpotter>
>>


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