[lug] Android Emulator

[John Vonachen]

I'm going to try that.  I'm also going to try running it as a virtual box,
something I have just discovered.

On Mon, Mar 5, 2012 at 4:15 PM, Christopher Robinson <chrobione at gmail.com>wrote:

> 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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