I would like to use Android-x86 2.2 as an emulator on my Windows 7. I have downloaded VirtualBox and the ISO, and I've made a virtual machine with it, but I can't set the resolution to 320x480
or something similar.
The following tutorial "Using the Android-x86 Port as your Emulator" suggests to insert:
<ExtraDataItem name="CustomVideoMode2" value="320x480x16" />
to my .vbox
file and I did it. Then I added UVESA_MODE=320x480
and vga=ask
to the boot config. When it boots, I have to press Enter to see the available options, but there is no 320x480
among them. How can I get it to work?
To change the Android-x86 screen resolution on VirtualBox you need to:
Add custom screen resolution:
Android <6.0:
VBoxManage setextradata "VM_NAME_HERE" "CustomVideoMode1" "320x480x16"
Android >=6.0:
VBoxManage setextradata "VM_NAME_HERE" "CustomVideoMode1" "320x480x32"
Figure out what is the ‘hex’-value for your VideoMode
:
2.1. Start the VM
2.2. In GRUB menu enter a (Android >=6.0: e)
2.3. In the next screen append vga=ask
and press Enter
2.4. Find your resolution and write down/remember the 'hex'-value for Mode
column
Translate the value to decimal notation (for example 360
hex is 864
in decimal).
Go to menu.lst
and modify it:
4.1. From the GRUB menu select Debug Mode
4.2. Input the following:
mount -o remount,rw /mnt
cd /mnt/grub
vi menu.lst
4.3. Add vga=864
(if your ‘hex’-value is 360
). Now it should look like this:
kernel /android-2.3-RC1/kernel quiet root=/dev/ram0 androidboot_hardware=eeepc acpi_sleep=s3_bios,s3_mode DPI=160 UVESA_MODE=320x480 SRC=/android-2.3-RC1 SDCARD=/data/sdcard.img vga=864
4.4. Save it:
:wq
Unmount and reboot:
cd /
umount /mnt
reboot -f
Hope this helps.