Building ASOP Android VM

ASOP android VM build

Prerequisite for the host Linux

install following packages:

zlib-devel.i686
glibc-devel.i686
gperf
mesa-libGL-devel.i686
ncurses-devel.i686

Or, if you are in Ubuntu, type: apt-get install git-core gnupg gperf build-essential zip curl zlib1g-dev libc6-dev x11proto-core-dev libx11-dev g++-multilib mingw32 tofrodos python-markdown libxml2-utils ncurses-dev bison libgl1-mesa-dev xsltproc flex And also sun java6 not openjdk! Details for sun java6 installation.

Google Android VM

make

• enlarge the internal storage

*[edit the android_4.1.0/build/target/board/vbox_x86/BoardConfig.mk file, change BOARD_USERDATAIMAGE_PARTITION_SIZE := 209715200]
*[edit the android_4.1.0/bootable/diskinstaller/android_img_data_layout.conf file, change num_lba 1200000]

• build:

*[cd to android_4.1.0/]
*make clean
*export USE_CCACHE=1
*export CCACHE_DIR=~
*prebuilts/misc/linux-x86/ccache/ccache -M 50G
*[cd to android_4.1.0/]
*source build/envsetup.sh
*lunch vbox_x86-eng 
*make -j4
*make android_disk_vdi

VirtualBox

• create a VM, no hard disk (vdi)
• use a) as primary '''IDE''' disk and b) as secondary

a) out/target/product/vbox_x86/android_system_dis.vdi
b) out/target/product/vbox_x86/android_data_dis.vdi

• boot Note: do not use .vdi as SCSI disks!

network

<Alt+F1> to console (<Alt+F7> back to GUI), execute:

setprop net.dns1 132.206.85.18

Configure ADB to communicate with the android inside virtual box

• [adb is in android-sdk-linux/platform-tools]
• [set port forwarding in virtual box, forward 5555 of host to 5555 of target]
• adb connect localhost:5555
• adb -s localhost:5555 shell
• [now we have a shell to control the android inside virtual box]
• [use "setprop net.dns1 132.206.85.18" to set dns]