I’ve blogged already about Android-x86.org project and also wrote about ice cream sandwich installed on a SD on my netbook. It was still a developers build, but now the next release has been available.
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The android x86 project just released on 1. January 2012 new builds of Android x86 here. All builds are based on Android 4.0.3 Ice Cream Sandwich developer branch and are suited for tablet pcs (slates) and netbooks. Here are the key features integrated (see):
- Kernel 3.0.8 with KMS enabled. Most tablets/netbooks can run Android-x86 in the native resolution.
- OpenGL hardware acceleration for AMD Radeon and Intel chipsets. However, if you have trouble with it, you can disable it by adding HWACCEL=0 to the cmdline.
- Support Wifi, multitouch and audio.
- Experimental support of Renderscript.
- Hybrid mode of iso images.
- A new text based GUI installer which supports ext3/ext2/ntfs/fat32 filesystems.
- External usb drive and sdcard are auto mounted on plugging.
- Compressed filesystem (squashfs).
A short test in a virtual machine, using VMware Workstation, failed, because the setup wizard was always stopped. Then I created a live system on a USB stick using unetbootin. This ICS 4.0.3 live system was booteable, and I was able to to run WiFi, android market and some other apps. Here is the setting page, showing android details
Afterward, I used the instruction given here, to install Android 4.0.3 (ICS) on a SD card. After setting up the system, I was greeted with the intro desktop shown below. The screen provides some informationshow to customize the desktop.
Playing a bit around with the new build showed, that more apps are useable – beside WiFi and android market the file manager was also working. The web cam didn’t made it on my MSI Wind U100. I haven’t a tablet pc, so I could not test touch screen. A short test I made with a live system booted on a Dell Inspiron 2330 wasn’t supporting touch handling. So my conclusion is: The Android x86 developers made a nice job, but’s still a way to go, untill we see RC1.
Schlagworte: Android x86, Ice Cream Sandwich, Netbook, Tablet PC
can confirm most of your findings:
- no boot with VB (setup wizard blocks completion of the boot)
- boot successful with netbootin and 4.0.3-asus-laptop version (not with the eeepc – version)
- however, no WIFI with my DELL e6500…
any advice?
@volker: I have no advice – WiFi works fine on my MSI Wind U100 (I used also 4.0.5-asus-laptop iso for my experiments). Guess, we have to wait for the next release.
@günter: Meanwhile, I use the ics (4.0.3) AOSP – build of http://www.buildroid.org which works very well in VB (including Wifi). They have also started to produce an android-x86-ics build; their test version is rather promising.
volker
@volker: thx for the hint – I will give it a try, if I have a bit spare time.