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. <
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.
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.
thinkpad_universal-4.0.3-20120307.iso
Do you have this file?
I could not download it from anywhere.
@volkan: Unfortunately I don’t have thinkpad hardware, so I never downloaded the iso image for this build. Perhaps ask in the android-x86 discussion list – I guess, some people may have a build.
Here you go:
http://www.mediafire.com/download/d0zk75qzsds8odv/thinkpad_universal-4.0.3-20120307.iso