[ale] How do I run Android in a Virtualbox VM

[Alex Carver]

So what DO you use?  I'd love to find something that will let me test
code at normal speed instead of slow motion.

On 9/30/2013 19:27, Michael Potter wrote:
> I do android development and I NEVER use the emulator with the development
> tools.
> It is just __way__ too slow.
> 
> I have not tried this:
> http://www.bluestacks.com/
> 
> Anyone have experience with that?
> 
> 
> On Mon, Sep 30, 2013 at 8:59 PM, Alex Carver <agcarver+ale at acarver.net>wrote:
> 
>> It doesn't help.  My work machine is a dual Xeon E5-2667 (6 cores each,
>> 2.9GHz) with 64 GB of RAM and it still takes about 25 minutes to compile
>> and start the emulator.  If the image is saved, it takes about 6 minutes
>> to start.  Run speed is also incredibly sluggish, taking about 10-15
>> seconds to register a click/tap on the virtual screen.
>>
>> On 9/30/2013 17:44, Barlow, Jim D wrote:
>>> This might be of interest if speed is an issue:
>>>
>>>
>> http://software.intel.com/en-us/articles/speeding-up-the-android-emulator-on-intel-architecture
>>>
>>> As long as you don't mind an Android x86 implementation.
>>>
>>>
>>> -          Jim
>>>
>>> On Mon, Sep 30, 2013 at 9:31 AM, Charles Shapiro <
>> hooterpincher at gmail.com<mailto:hooterpincher at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>> The Android emulator works well but needs a lot of machine resources.
>>  It runs pretty slowly even on my Core I5 laptop.
>>> -- CHS
>>>
>>> Which would make it a strictly time accurate emulator, wouldn't  it :^) ?
>>>
>>> -- David
>>>