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

[Boris Borisov]

Emulation for me is a lot of CPU work. You need something hardware
accelerated aka VM in proper 64 bit host OS. Sometimes I'm running a
version of DamnSmallLinux in QEMU on 4 core CPU and even this is slow
because does not use hardware for assist.

On 10/2/13, Ron Frazier (ALE) <atllinuxenthinfo at techstarship.com> wrote:
> 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
>>>     >
>>>     >
>>>
>>>
>>>
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>>>
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