Re: [Qemu-devel] Android Goldfish on QEMU

[Jan Kiszka]

On 2012-05-28 14:28, Stefan Hajnoczi wrote:
> On Sat, May 26, 2012 at 2:25 PM, 陳韋任 <address@hidden> wrote:
>> On Sat, May 26, 2012 at 02:51:29PM +0200, Andreas Färber wrote:
>>> Am 26.05.2012 07:55, schrieb 陳韋任:
>>>> On Fri, May 25, 2012 at 06:13:25PM -0400, Ira Ray Jenkins wrote:
>>>>> I found a GSOC11 project that attempted to port the Android "Goldfish"
>>>>> platform to mainline QEMU. Was this project successful, or is this
>>>>> currently being worked on?
>>>>
>>>>   The author sent the patchset last year [1], but apparently it not get 
>>>> merged
>>>> into trunk. I don't know why. :)
>>>
>>> Presumably because the student didn't react to any of the review
>>> comments and never sent a fixed v2.
>>
>>  It would be great if we can bring it back. ;)
> 
> Is goldfish still a relevant Android dev platform?  In other words -
> would goldfish be useful to Android developers or just cool for QEMU
> hackers and "old-school" Android enthusiasts?

It's still the base of the emulator you get with current SDKs.

FWIW, latest AOSP (today's git checkout) built for the vbox_x86-eng
target runs nicely in QEMU/KVM (using the intermediate disk image
"android_disk.img"). So, adding device models to improve this
environment would likely be more helpful to provide a first alternative
to the Android emulator. And it's likely a lower hanging fruit. And a
much sweeter one (KVM makes it pretty fast :) ).

Jan

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