Android x86 porting, unable to make it work

Question

I'm kind of new to the whole porting issue and I got to it because of the slowness in the emulator provided with the Android SDK.

I downloaded the android-x86-3.2-RC2-eeepc and android-x86-3.2-RC2-tegav2 ISO-es (from this site) and tried them on the VirtualBox but have no internet connection on the eeepc version and the tegev2 wont event start.

I tried the VirtualBoxHowTo but got nothing, on both Windows and Linux platforms. the only thing I managed to understand is that to use this on a VM you need to build it for VM.

Can anyone help me on this?

P.S.: I need the HoneyComb version (3.2) and the pc I have is a AMD 6 core on and Asus Crosshair Extreme motherboard, Windows 7 or Ubunutu 11.10. (both OS are 64bit)

Answer 1

I solved the problem. This is what I do to get internet connection.

In my case, the gateway address was 192.168.0.254 and the DNS server was 192.168.0.10. I select an IP address for the VirtualBox host from the unused ones (192.168.0.250).

1) First of all, I set my VirtualBox network configuration:

Attached to: Bridged Adapter

Adapter type: PCnet-FAST III

2) After that, I start Android from VirtualBox; after boot, I open a root shell, pressing Alt+F1

3) Here, I use these commands:

ifconfig eth0 up 192.168.0.250 route add default gw 192.168.0.254 dev eth0 setprop net.dns1 192.168.0.10 

4) Now, I return to Android (Alt + F7), and I can surf on internet!

Unfortunately, this process must be followed each time you start Android

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In order to obtain gateway and DNS IP addresses, from Windows you can use this command

ipconfig /all 

You must refer to your network card