[lug] Android Emulator

[Christopher Robinson]

Have you tried running the emulator on the host machine (Win7) to see how
well  or poorly it may run?

I would be guessing the issue you are seeing is the graphics area of the
system.

Chris

On Mon, Mar 5, 2012 at 4:08 PM, John Vonachen <john.vonachen at gmail.com>wrote:

> I changed it in this way:
>
>      GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash clocksource=jiffies
> divider=10"
>
> Still no good.  I've read that Android emulators run slow even in normal
> situations.  I wonder if maybe since I'm running it in a virtual box it may
> be so slow as to be unusable.  I gave my virtual box 4 processors and 4
> gigs of ram.
>
>
> On Mon, Mar 5, 2012 at 3:38 PM, John Vonachen <john.vonachen at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> Would I modify /etc/default/grub to do that?
>>
>> On Mon, Mar 5, 2012 at 11:52 AM, Zan Lynx <zlynx at acm.org> wrote:
>>
>>> On Mon, 2012-03-05 at 10:38 -0700, John Vonachen wrote:
>>> > I'm trying to set up a development environment for developing Android
>>> > apps.  I have a badass windows 7 laptop: i7, quad (which looks like
>>> > 8), 16gigs of ram (overkill?).  I made a virtual box with Mint 12,
>>> > installed everything I think I needed through the package manager
>>> > (that way everything I get is most likely to be compatable with Mint
>>> > 12).  I followed the instruction pain-stakingly on the
>>> > developer.android.com site.  Tried to get the hello android project to
>>> > work on eclipse.  The emulators I tried to run it on, none of them
>>> > finish booting.  No android screen, no home screen, just a black
>>> > screen of death.  Has anyone worked with this?
>>>
>>> I used to have problems with Linux in VirtualBox. I started using the
>>> following parameters on the kernel boot line:
>>>
>>>        clocksource=jiffies divider=10
>>>
>>> divider=10 reduces tick speed to 100 Hz assuming your kernel is
>>> configured to run at 1000 Hz. 1000 Hz is pretty bad for a virtual
>>> machine.
>>>
>>> Another thing you may be hitting is the emulators might be trying to use
>>> virtualization themselves. Make sure VirtualBox has the options enabled
>>> to give virtualization to the guest system.
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> My final thoughts on Taoism and the philosophy of Wittgenstein:*
> Beliefs are made of words but the world is not.*
>
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