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-R

Answer 1

You don't need to port anything to run Android x86 on your computer, assuming that you're trying to run it inside VirtualBox with a host OS of Windows 7.

Make a new VM with a hard drive and about 8 MB of video RAM (see the VirtualBoxHowTo page for even more VirtualBox settings). Then, attach the eeepc ISO to the VM and boot from the CD-ROM drive by hitting F12 at the Oracle BIOS screen. Next, select "Installation" with your arrow keys and press Enter.

Walk through the process (tutorials abound), shutdown the VM, remove the ISO, and boot the virtual machine.

I just wrote several paragraphs about pitfalls with Android x86 so you might want to take a look at the blog entries. I don't know if including a link here would be considered spamming so leave a comment if you want the URL.

Sample tutorial for installing Android x86: http://brunocosta.com/blog/pt/2011/11/02/speeding-up-android-development-with-android-x86-and-virtualbox/