Good afternoon!
I've noticed the performance difference between an Androidx86 vm created straight from VirtualBox and emulators (Genymotion or Nox, for example) is HUGE.
I'd like to understand why and what would I need to reach such performance.
Androidx86 VirtualBox VM vs Emulators
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Re: Androidx86 VirtualBox VM vs Emulators
Huge in what sense? And why are we comparing apples to oranges?
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Re: Androidx86 VirtualBox VM vs Emulators
I'm sorry if I sounded rude by any way. It was not my intention.socratis wrote:Huge in what sense? And why are we comparing apples to oranges?
It looks like I can't get hw acceleration to work with the vm.
I'm not an expert, so I don't know if comparing both is actually fair. However, those emulators still uses the VirtualBox vm. That's why I asked. How can they achieve such smoothness?
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Re: Androidx86 VirtualBox VM vs Emulators
You weren't rude at all, why would you think that? Vague on the other hand, yes...AndreLuisOS wrote:I'm sorry if I sounded rude by any way. It was not my intention.
That's why I asked what "Huge difference in performance" means.
Which hardware acceleration are you referring to?AndreLuisOS wrote:It looks like I can't get hw acceleration to work with the vm.
First of all, Android Guests are not officially supported. However we could take a look, no promises...AndreLuisOS wrote:How can they achieve such smoothness?
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Re: Androidx86 VirtualBox VM vs Emulators
3D acceleration.
Thanks for taking a look at it.
Thanks for taking a look at it.
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Re: Androidx86 VirtualBox VM vs Emulators
Possibly they achieve it by having custom drivers in Android. And/or a custom build of VirtualBox.
I have a copy of BlueStacks on my PC, which allows me to run certain device control apps that for some reason nobody builds PC apps for any more. It seems to be based on a custom build of VirtualBox 2.x. Whether they did the custom build themselves I don't know: it's possible that they're a paying customer.
I have a copy of BlueStacks on my PC, which allows me to run certain device control apps that for some reason nobody builds PC apps for any more. It seems to be based on a custom build of VirtualBox 2.x. Whether they did the custom build themselves I don't know: it's possible that they're a paying customer.
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Re: Androidx86 VirtualBox VM vs Emulators
Got it. Thanks!
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