[lug] Android Emulator

[Chuck Hipschman]

Have you tried giving only one processor to the virtual machine?
Worked for me, but I wasn't doing Android development.  ymmv

On Tue, Mar 6, 2012 at 3:49 PM,  <stimits at comcast.net> wrote:
> ...
> 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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