Android in Virtual Box

[whs]

First post from Android, This is neat. Except it has some problems with my German kezboard.

 

[Everlong]

Go to Settings, then Language and Keyboard, then there should be keyboard options. You can change the input language to a QWERTZ layout if you prefer.

 

[Kari]

First post from Android, This is neat. Except it has some problems with my German keZboard.

:roflmao:

Nice one, Wolfgang...

 

[whs]

Go to Settings, then Language and Keyboard, then there should be keyboard options. You can change the input language to a QWERTZ layout if you prefer.

I am not sure which settings you mean. In Windows7, I have, of course, set it to QWERTZ. But in Android it does not honor that. Is there any other setting you were thinking about?

I am also trying to find vBox Guest Additions for Android but could not id any yet.

 

[Kari]

Changing the language and keyboard layout in Android vm only changes the layout of the built-in on-screen keyboard, having non whatsoever impact in what layout the host's keyboard is using when typing to Android. Funny enough, even changing the layout in host seems not be working, so when using the host keyboard the English layout is always used even if another layout is chosen (at least I have not found how to change it).

Theoretically, VirtualBox Guest Additions for Linux guests should work with Android, but it's just a theory. I have not found a way to install Guest Additions, nor can I find any information on this from the net.

Kari

 

[Everlong]

Go to Settings, then Language and Keyboard, then there should be keyboard options. You can change the input language to a QWERTZ layout if you prefer.

I am not sure which settings you mean. In Windows7, I have, of course, set it to QWERTZ. But in Android it does not honor that. Is there any other setting you were thinking about?

I am also trying to find vBox Guest Additions for Android but could not id any yet.

I mean in the Android settings, sorry. And after testing, it seems the settings within Android only affects the virtual keyboard, not any hardware keyboards.



Even the emulator keyboard on the right still stays as QWERTY.

 

[whs]

I will solve the keyboard question by installing the whole bit on my Sony laptop. That has a QWERTY keyboard - and a lot more muscle than my desktop too.

My initial take on the Android is that I am unimpressed. But for a final judgement I will need to get more into it - especially wait until I can find a Honeycomb .iso. I think MS has a good chance to get well into this market if they do a good job with Win8 - and the help of Nokia.

Today I talked to a guy that had a Windows Phone7 smartphone and was raving about it. He thought that was already better than Android (Froyo) which he had at first but returned it.

 

[Kari]

I will solve the keyboard question by installing the whole bit on my Sony laptop. That has a QWERTY keyboard - and a lot more muscle than my desktop too.

I think you are going to notice what both Everlong and I mentioned in our last posts; You can only change the used layout in built-in on-screen keyboard.

I have Android 2.2. guest on an completely Finnish computer (Finnish Windows host, only Finnish keyboard installed on host, Finnish layout chosen in Android guest) but it still uses the standard US International layout when typing with host's keyboard. Somehow this is so hardcoded in Android vm that at least I have not been able to find a solution how to use Finnish layout or even how to type Scandinavian characters ÅåÄäÖö. For that I have to use built-in keyboard.

Kari

 

[Everlong]

My initial take on the Android is that I am unimpressed. But for a final judgement I will need to get more into it - especially wait until I can find a Honeycomb .iso. I think MS has a good chance to get well into this market if they do a good job with Win8 - and the help of Nokia.

Well I don't think a virtual machine does Android much justice.

 

[whs]

My initial take on the Android is that I am unimpressed. But for a final judgement I will need to get more into it - especially wait until I can find a Honeycomb .iso. I think MS has a good chance to get well into this market if they do a good job with Win8 - and the help of Nokia.

Well I don't think a virtual machine does Android much justice.

I am not sure. I ran Windows7 Beta the whole time in vBox and was very impressed. Now granted, the operation with a touchscreen and in vBox are quite different. But I am talking more about the functional capabilities than the operational capabilities.

As an example, I had quite a long look at many of the available applications and even downloaded some. But they are rather Mikey Mouse. Nothing really very impressive.

 

[Nem]

The market for the Vbox version is not the same its actually really well how do you put it...dull as all the apps from the phone can't run from it..as that makes sense. the offcial market goes by model of the phone build number etc so if you think bout its not gonna have no build for the PC ported version.

The only thing the iso is good for is if its loaded on to a netbook or something for fast startup quick access to the web and some other basic things, can't really judge the OS for a phone with that...

 

[vscred]

Need help with accessing wireless network on Android VM

Hi,

This is the first time that I am playing around with Android VM on Win 7. I have followed the instructions and tips in this thread and have gotten it up and running - a big thanks, everyone!

However, I have a problem. I am not able to access the wireless network setting in Android (tried with Ethernet, that worked). Would like to know if that is a general problem with the version or some settings that I can tweak in the VM network settings?

Thanks in advance for your help,

VS

Details:

Dell Latitude XT (touch-screen enabled laptop), running Windows 7 Home Premium 32 bit; with 'Dell Wireless 1505 Draft 802.11n WLAN Mini-Card'

Running Android x86 2.2 Froyo on Oracle Virtual Box version 4.0.4.

 

[whs]

That may be a vBox setting problem. Check whether you have a similar vBox network setting like the picture below. A big problem with Android (versus e.g. Ubuntu that I am running now) is that there are no guest additions.

I played around a bit with Android, but I then deleted it because it was really too limited.

 

[vscred]

Re: Need help with wireless network on Android VM

Thanks for a quick response, WHS.

Yes, I have been trying out the different options there for the past few days. I have tried NAT and Bridged Adaptor type attachments, and within those tried a couple of Intel Server Adapter Types. Latter was after reading the VB Help, which suggested that Vista and Win 7 support Intel Server adapter type by default -

As for Android versus Linux, I have dual-boot Ubuntu on other machines; but wanted to get a hang of the Android O/S, and see whether it was worthwhile stumping up for a dedicated Android (or Android/ Win7 dual-boot) tablet.

"BEGIN QUOTE 4.2.1.5. Windows Vista networking


If, for some reason, you want to use an AMD PCNet card with Microsoft Windows Vista or later instead of the Intel E1000 card that VirtualBox provides by default, you will need to install a driver for that manually (see Section 6.1, “Virtual networking hardware”).
END QUOTE"

 

[whs]

I don't think you will get a good idea on Android in vBox. The operation is really too restricted. I went to the stores and played around with it on different devices (2.2 and 3.0). That is very different

 

[vscred]

So far, other than this VM, my experience with Android (xdAndroid) has been limited to running Android via HARET.exe on my Windows 6.1 mobile phone, thanks to the smart folks at XDA Developers. But good as that is, that too is restricted and various functions don't work.

So off to the stores, then. Thanks for pointing this out, WHS.