[lug] Android Emulator

[stimits at comcast.net]

...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.
...

Just a comment on an observation about the emulator speed...

I tried this on a quad opteron with 4 GB ram, and RAID 1,0, running only this. But,
it had only integrated video, and I ran it with ssh -Y from a fast graphics machine
(all linux) sitting next to it, with direct gigabit. All non-graphics programs run very
fast on that machine. But the android emulator took about 5 minutes to start
showing up, and another 15 minutes for the gui to actually become useful. It then
was very sluggish responding.

On my quad core machine with fast OpenGL graphics (don't know if the emulator
takes advantage of this), the gui comes up very fast, and is very responsive. So
it appears the emulator is very sensitive to graphics performance, for whatever
reason. Remote apps of course do not normally have hardware acceleration,
and it is possible that your environment also lacks this, especially if it is a
virtual machine, even if it is inside of a fast machine with blazing fast graphics.
The display machine in use runs consistently far over 3000 fps at 1920x1080.

Sometimes virtualization has some form of option related to access to
hardware acceleration...perhaps you could check your options there.

D. Stimits, stimits AT comcast DOT net
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