Android 4.0, otherwise known as Ice Cream Sandwich, has been released for x86. There is an ISO available, featuring hardware acceleration for AMD Radeon, but not yet for Intel-based systems. Several things don’t work as of yet.
Android 4.0, otherwise known as Ice Cream Sandwich, has been released for x86. There is an ISO available, featuring hardware acceleration for AMD Radeon, but not yet for Intel-based systems. Several things don’t work as of yet.
does this work in vmware or virtualbox?
http://www.android-x86.org/screenshot#TOC-Virtual-Machine
that isn’t ics though.
It looks like it does.
I take it back.. I can’t get it to boot in VirtualBox or Vmware Workstation 7.
If someone figures it out, please share.
I managed to get it to start on VirtualBox.
Make sure you change your virtual disk controller to SATA in AHCI mode. It would not boot for me on the default IDE (was stuck on Detecting Android-x86…. (lots of dots)).
Anyone knows how to do that in qemu? It’s been ages since I used qemu.
thanks for the pointer broken_symlink
For those too troubled to look it up here are the details to changing the controller to SATA in VirtualBox that worked for me
1. right click the machine name and select Settings
2. click Storage
3. in the middle section of the window will be an area labeled ‘Storage Tree’ which shows your current controllers. The default is IDE, which is the problem.
4. Look at the bottom of the box; just below the box are four icons. Pick the third one from the left. It has a angled box with a green plus sign over it and the mouse over says ‘Add Controller’ – click it
5. Choose Add SATA controller; your new controller will now be in the Storage Tree
6. Use the two icons on the line for your new SATA controller to add the new virtual hard drive and your CD drive
7. Remove the IDE controller
8. Mount the ISO in the CD drive and enjoy some sweet ICS
i’m using virtualbox on os x and the only choice i have for the sata controller is ahci. i just get a lot of dots too.
The iso either takes 20 min to boot or it won’t boot in my VBox or native on ASUS laptop with Ati grafix. I gave up quick.
it didn’t boot for me in virtualbox.
Not sure why anyone would want to run this, on a phone or otherwise.. but the ISO is for netbooks/tablets using the AMD Brazos platform.
According to their site they mention it works on the MSI 110W.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AMD_mobile_platform#Brazos_.28Fusion.2…
Edited 2011-12-01 06:25 UTC
I have been running a 3.2 nightly on a Samsung NetBook. I have to say that Android on an x86 NetBook is an awesome creation. I’ll be following this for sure.
Sounds like a great platform…
“What NOT work (yet):
* Sound
* Camera
* Ethernet
* Hardware acceleration for Intel platform ”
It’s apparent the project is in very early stage, so the product is incomplete. The people behind the project never claimed they had a finished product.
That’s for android 4.0…
android 2.3.7 and 3.2.1 have been out for longer and work a lot better.
I needed something to replace OpenBSD (no ACPI or sound on a netbook -.-), so once they have a full working release for Atom netbooks, I think I’ll give it a shot.
Well I’ll be damned, there’s an open source build of 3.2 optimized for Eee PCs! Posting from it.
Got a link to that? Or a list of which eeePCs it works with? Could be interesting to try it on a 1005HA.
http://people.mozilla.org/~jwillcox/asus_laptop_usb.img
I used that image dd’d to an SD card to install Android. When the installer asks you if you want to create a fake SD card, SAY YES. It messes up a lot of stuff if you don’t have something mounted as an sdcard.
Of all transitions, from OpenBSD to Android…
The Eee PC is just my screw-around-with-operating-systems machine. It’s run Android, OpenBSD, Haiku, and a bunch of different Linux distros.
I’m trying to boot the live CD on my desktop PC. It keeps displaying dots “………..” and that’s it. My real ice cream sandwich melted waiting for this Ice Cream Sandwich to boot.
for all the people getting the endless dots when booting in VirtualBox here is what worked for me
1. right click the machine name and select Settings
2. click Storage
3. in the middle section of the window will be an area labeled ‘Storage Tree’ which shows your current controllers. The default is IDE, which is the problem.
4. Look at the bottom of the box; just below the box are four icons. Pick the third one from the left. It has a angled box with a green plus sign over it and the mouse over says ‘Add Controller’ – click it
5. Choose Add SATA controller; your new controller will now be in the Storage Tree
6. Use the two icons on the line for your new SATA controller to add the new virtual hard drive and your CD drive
7. Remove the IDE controller
8. Mount the ISO in the CD drive and enjoy some sweet ICS
Installed successfully under VirtualBox, but then it boots to grub prompt :S
If I run Live version, it starts, but no pointing device (keyboard or mouse) seems to work in GUI.
Is this expected?
oops, mouse is working but I had to disable integration