{"id":5944,"date":"2011-11-28T15:43:43","date_gmt":"2011-11-28T13:43:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.borncity.com\/blog\/2011\/11\/28\/testing-android-x86-ice-cream-sandwich-image-from-vmlite\/"},"modified":"2021-10-15T10:24:02","modified_gmt":"2021-10-15T08:24:02","slug":"testing-android-x86-ice-cream-sandwich-image-from-vmlite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/blog\/2011\/11\/28\/testing-android-x86-ice-cream-sandwich-image-from-vmlite\/","title":{"rendered":"Testing Android-x86 Ice Cream Sandwich-Image from VMLite"},"content":{"rendered":"

[German version<\/a>]Sometimes coincidence happens. Yesterday and the day before I blogged\u00a0 here<\/a> and here<\/a> about Android-x86 ports of Ice Cream Sandwich (Android 4.0) for Virtualbox. Got a lot of traffice here within my blog. This morning I received an email from Dr. Huihong Luo, founder of VMLite Corporation. I was informed about a new beta of (the long awaited) VMLite 4. And Mr. Huihong mentioned an Android-x86 port of Ice Cream Sandwich offered by VMLite for download. I will introduce VMlite in a separate article. Below I will have a short view at VMLite?s Android 4 port.<\/p>\n

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\"\"It's been a while, since I'm was in touch with Dr. Huihong Luo as beta tester for their virtualization products. Mr. Huihong is the master mind behind Salamander .NET Decompiler\/Obfuscator and he also forces development of virtualization products like VMLite<\/a>, VBoot<\/a> and MyOldPC<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Now VMLite Corporation created also an Android-x86 build from Ice Cream Sandwich source code. What should I write about this build? There are not too much new things to report, because I already tested a similar\/identical ics build yesterday<\/a>. Well, the image was created from a japanese guy. But the result is pretty identical, because he uses the same (unmodified) source.<\/p>\n

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Note:<\/strong> Obviously developers from VMLite was a bit more successful than me to brew an Android x86 build of ICS. I already described the steps how to build a Virtualbox image of ICS. But for my own, I wasn't successful due to a small internet bandwith and a shortage of disc space. I spended more than 12 hours download time to find out at least, that my Ubuntu runs out of free storage on disk. So I canceled the whole thing and started to search for images already build..<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Anyway, now we have a 3rd source, because VMLite Corporation offers an image of Android 4.0.1 (Ice Cream Sandwich) for free download<\/a>. After downloading Android-v4.7z<\/em> a use a tool like 7-Zip<\/a> to unpack the archive. After expanding the .7z file, a folder with several files (some with config informations) exists.<\/p>\n

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For my 1st tests I used a portable edition of Virtualbox 4.1.6 already available on my host (because VMLite are based on Virtualbox source code). I just added the .vdi file with Android 4.0.1 image as hard disc to a new created VM. Tip: In VMLite it's sufficient to drag the .vbox config file into the left colums of VMLite window. VMLite Workstation will create a new Guest-VM entry in this column.<\/p>\n

After booting the virtual disc, a grub boot menu is shown, and the 2nd entry to boot from device \/sda<\/em> need to be choosen. Installation on \/sdb <\/em>fails, if no 2nd virtual disc is configured.<\/p>\n

After successful boot (took about 15 seconds on my system), the Ice Cream Sandwich lock screen should be visible.<\/p>\n

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Just drag the circle with the lock icon to the right (where another lock icon will be shown), to unlock the screen. Then the Android 4.0 desktop should be shown.<\/p>\n

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Below is an 2nd screenshot of the APPs page visible, obtained unter VMLite Workstation.<\/p>\n

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It's pretty the same like the desktop I have seen in my yesterday test<\/a> \u2013 because the same, unmodified ics source was used for build. Within my yesterday article I explained, what you need to know about this Android-x86 build.<\/p>\n

What's left to mention? Does the boot stalls with a message \"Kernel panic \u2013 not syncing: Attempt do kill init!\", as shown below?<\/p>\n

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This is because Android 4 needs direct access to hardware, which is supported only on machines with virtualization support (Intel VT-X or AMD-V). Just check the config page of your VM. Is the tab Acceleration <\/em>is greyed out or if the check boxes VT-x\/AMD-V activate and <\/em>Nested Paging activate<\/em> are blocked? In this case your machine doesn't supports VT-X and Android-x86 4.0.1 can't be executed in a VM.<\/p>\n

Links:
\n<\/strong>1: Android 4-Download page<\/a> at VMLite.com
\n2: Foren thread about Android 4 at VMLite.com
\n3: Discussion in XDA developers forum<\/p>\n

Similar arcticles:<\/strong>
\na: Ice Cream Sandwich-Testdrive in Virtualbox<\/a> \u2013 Teil I
\nb: Test: Ice Cream Sandwich in Virtualbox<\/a> \u2013 Teil II
\nc: Android-x86 Ice Cream Sandwich from VMLite<\/a>
\nd: Running Ice Cream Sandwich in VMware<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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