Pre-built images

For those who don't want to go through the entire procedure mentioned above, there is a short-cut—download a pre-built image made by someone else, and test it in VirtualBox. I recommend that you download pre-built images from: http://tabletsx86.org/x86-UPDATED-BUILDS.htm http://www.android-x86.org/download Android x86 4.0 RC1, released by the Android-x86 team, is based on Android 4.0.3 ICS, and has the following features: Support for multi-touch, Wi-Fi, audio, Bluetooth, G-sensor and camera OpenGL hardware acceleration for AMD Radeon and Intel chipsets Linux Kernel 3.0.8 with KMS enabled: most netbooks can run Android-x86 in the native resolution. V8 JavaScript engine Can simulate an SD card with internal storage External USB drive and SD card are auto mounted to /mnt/USB on plugging Experimental support of Renderscript A text-based GUI installer which supports ext3/ext2/ntfs/ fat32 Hybrid ISO (you can dump the ISO into a USB drive using ‘ dd if=android-x86-4.0-xxx.iso of=/dev/sd’") When you build an Android image from source, a lot of things won't work out-of-the-box as you would expect. Android image. When I built the above image, I could not get the Internet to work on it.

To build Android 2.3 and older, you need to have a 64-bit machine. For earlier versions, a 32-bit machine is recommended.