Emulating PC on Android

Whooo… A picture is worth more than 1000 words…

Actually that’s a PC x86 emulator running inside of the Google Android emulator. It already boots into the Bochs BIOS but then crashes due to an OutOfMemoryException. Stay tuned for more updates on this

And please don’t ask about the performance. You don’t wanna really know yet!

Have fun!

This entry was written by andre , posted on Wednesday July 15 2009at 08:07 pm , filed under Development, Projects and tagged Android, BIOS, Bochs, Emulating, Emulator, Google, JPCDroid, x86 . Bookmark the permalink . Post a comment below or leave a trackback: Trackback URL.

5 Responses to “Emulating PC on Android”

Kevin, on December 25th, 2009 at 7:37 am Said:

Haven’t heard any updates, news, or even the files for this project being released to the public, any news on the project? There are a number of people along with myself interested.
andre, on December 26th, 2009 at 11:22 am Said:

I haven’t canceled the project yet but it turned out to be much more complicated than originally thought. The issue is the Android system itself which limits applications to use a maximum of 16 MBytes of RAM. For an x86 emulator that’s not pretty much :-/
Kevin, on January 7th, 2010 at 1:41 pm Said:

Not much, true, but enough to emulate a basic linux command line, or possibly get some dos games running.
twallcx, on April 21st, 2010 at 11:04 pm Said:

hmm, i wonder whether this problem was fixed in a subsequent release of android os, what version are you developing this under?
andre, on April 22nd, 2010 at 7:20 am Said:

I’m really looking forward to JIT support in Android for a better performance. I’ve managed to boot up FreeDOS to show the command line but it took nearly 10 minutes both in emulator (1.5-2.1) and on a real device (Nexus One, Android 2.1). Either I have to fully switch to C++ code using the Android NDK or we have to wait for JIT.

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