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Basic sound playback support should be enabled in the vbox_x86 target.

We should produce a list of settings suitable for running an AOSP OPENMASTER 
android_disk.vdi in VirtualBox. (Perhaps in the project Wiki tab?)

The vbox_defconfig kernel configuration in AOSP's 2.6.29-based goldfish kernel 
does not have PS/2 mouse support enabled. This should be enabled in 
vbox_defconfig to allow builds based on this configuration file to have basic 
captured mouse support.

What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. on switchable graphics laptop set graphic card to integrated intel
2. start androvm player following the standard procedure
3. the boot of android aborts

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?
AndroVM Player should complete the boot process, but instead it aborts halfway

What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?
androVM_vbox86t_4.1.1_r4-20121119.ova or tp 
This happens on Linux Debian 64 bit and on Windows 8

Please provide any additional information below.
Using the dedicated graphic card (ATI mobility 4500) AndroVM Player boots 
succesfully with hardware acceleration
the PCI address of this card is 0000:01:00.0
Cannot test with older versions of VirtualBox because older than latest does 
not allow to see the androvm image file during the import

Without RTC support, clock updates and any related services are not functional.

Using the default values for the BOOTCLASSPATH, the following code will crash.

XPathFactory factory = XPathFactory.newInstance();
XPath xPath = factory.newXPath();
 Log.i("XPath", "" + xPath);

This is due to multiple jar files missing in the BOOTCLASSPATH environment 
variable. 
In this particular case, apache-xml.jar is not included so the XPath api 
crashes when
trying to find a class that implements the api. 

I have submitted the patch to the android gerrit at 
https://android-review.googlesource.com/#/c/35253/
and wanted to post the issue here and contribute to the project.

For testing application, it would be great to be able to manage the virtual 
screen orientation.

Status of the ethernet interface should be displayed visually, if ethernet is 
present.

Power management through ACPI is not enabled in AOSP vbox support.
To have it, we need to :
- Add ACPI to the kernel through vbox_defconfig
- Solve the problem where VirtualBox don't send ACPI events on power management 
events (plug/unplug charger, battery level changing, ...) : my solution (not so 
elegant but I don't think of any other one) is to poll events at a reasonable 
frequency (30 secs)

I already have done this on my local source tree.
I have to submit the patches.

Dan.

A "Linux: Android" OS type should be defined in VirtualBox, suitable for use 
with the AOSP vbox VDI.

Battery status is not correctly displayed on x86 hosts.

We should probably try to get Android bootable from a virtual SATA controller 
as well, though this will have minimal practical impact.

After we're reasonably confident we've made all necessary kernel and kernel 
config adjustments, we should consider posting to this project's Downloads 
section:

- Our vbox_defconfig
- A tarball of our current kernel source tree
- A binary built from the above (suitable for drop-in replacement of 
prebuilts/qemu-kernel/x86/vmlinux-vbox)

These would be as a stopgap only, while we're waiting for upstream to merge (or 
reject) our changes, and each of them should be removed once the upstream state 
matches ours. This would allow new contributors to get started with our kernel 
as quickly as possible, without having to check out a number of disparate 
patches.

VirtualBox Guest Drivers are mandatory to :
- Implement shared directory with host
- Have Hardware OpenGL

Working on my local tree.

Procedure :
- Download vbox guest additions
- Go to VBoxGuestAdditions-x.y.z/src/vboxguest-x.y.z
- Issue "make BUILD_TARGET_ARCH=x86 KERN_DIR=/path/to/android/kernel"
- If compilation OK, you'll have kernel modules vboxguest.ko vboxsf.ko 
vboxvideo.ko which will have to be loaded at android startup

Support for recording via host-connected microphone should be established in 
the vbox_x86 target.

Hardware OpenGL acceleration should be enabled in the vbox_x86 target via 
VirtualBox's 3D acceleration.

USB cameras should be supported in the vbox_x86 target when connected to the 
host PC.

Support for VirtualBox's emulated USB tablet ("absolute pointing device") is 
not present in AOSP. Investigation should probably start around EventHub.cpp.

In order to support USB in VirtualBox, OHCI HCD support must be compiled into 
the kernel.

What steps will reproduce the problem?
1.install vm.iso under VB 4.1.8, as live CD or on HD
2.boot
3.start browser

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?
should load web pages
web pages do not load; browser closes after less than 30s.



What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?
use vm.iso (all available versions) in VB 4.1.8 under linux/ubuntu on dell D505


Please provide any additional information below.
Have tested that internet connection works.
Browser works fine, with all presently available vm.iso's, in VB 4.1.8 under 
linux/ubuntu on dell e6500!

Paravirtualized virtio-net may give us better ethernet performance.

If eth0 is present, it should be automatically brought up at boot time using 
DHCP, including appropriate DNS settings.

Once we're confident our 2.6.29 work covers the ground we intend to (as per 
issue 14), we should attempt porting the work forward to the 3.0.8 tree in 
kernel/common.