On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 10:32 AM, Xuan Zhang <allsy1...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi, > > Recently, I plan to do some experiment about virtual machine running > mobile os. So I intend to run Android on Qemu rather than the "android > emulator". > > I have seen android has four images: kernel-qemu,system.img, > userdata.img and ramdisk.img. However, I still can't figure out how to > pass them to qemu. > > use the -verbose flag, it will print the internal "command-line" being passed to QEMU. > BTW, it seems "android emulator" defines goldfish. Is it possible to > port it to qemu? > > Actually, I wonder whether one of the following can work: > 1. Get the hw part of goldfish, and compile it with original qemu. > Then run qemu with proper argument passing the images. > 2. Modify the "android emulator" such that its interfaces works > exactly as a specalized qemu rather than a emulator. > > I am really new to android, thanks very much. > > In theory, it should be possible to do that by: 1/ integrating the hw/goldfish_*.[hc] sources into the upstream qemu sources, they correspond to goldfish-specific hardware emulation that simply must be implemented in QEMU. "Goldfish" is the name of the virtual ARM machine/platform for the Linux kernel variant used to generate the kernel-qemu image. 2/ finding the right mix of command-line options when invoking qemu to duplicate what the normal Android emulator does (see output of -verbose option for examples) Note that the result will probably have no telephony emulation, not proper network connectivity plus a bunch of missing features (no skins, no proper keyboard emulation, etc...). However, chances are that it will run. Good luck > Best, > Xuan > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ unsubscribe: android-porting+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com website: http://groups.google.com/group/android-porting -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
