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    The document describes how to build a customized Android-x86 OS image by modifying the kernel to add support for specific network drivers. It involves downloading the Android source code, configuring the kernel to enable the Virtio and Realtek Ethernet drivers, building and copying the customized kernel, and finally building a new OS image with the custom kernel to install on a virtual machine.

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    The document describes how to build a customized Android-x86 OS image by modifying the kernel to add support for specific network drivers. It involves downloading the Android source code, configuring the kernel to enable the Virtio and Realtek Ethernet drivers, building and copying the customized kernel, and finally building a new OS image with the custom kernel to install on a virtual machine.

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    Android-x86 OS build

    With kernel customization

    Here in this post we will be building Android x86 OS image with kernel customization
    for specific purpose I needed to add network driver supports to the kernel so i am going to show how i did that .
    If you need to build an image with kernel customization you can follow my approach

    >> host machine info


    ayx@ayx-ThinkPad:~$ uname -a
    Linux ayx-ThinkPad 5.0.0-29-generic #31~18.04.1-Ubuntu SMP Thu Sep 12 18:29:21 UTC 2019 x86_64 x86_64
    x86_64 GNU/Linux

    >> install dependencies


    ayx@ayx-ThinkPad:~$ sudo apt -y install git gcc curl make repo libxml2-utils flex m4
    ayx@ayx-ThinkPad:~$ sudo apt -y install openjdk-8-jdk lib32stdc++6 libelf-dev
    ayx@ayx-ThinkPad:~$ sudo apt -y install libssl-dev python-mako syslinux-utils
    ayx@ayx-ThinkPad:~/android-src/android-x86$ sudo apt-get install ncurses-devel libncurses-dev

    >> Download Source


    ayx@ayx-ThinkPad:~/android-src/android-x86$ repo init -u http://scm.osdn.net/gitroot/android-x86/manifest -b pie-x86
    ayx@ayx-ThinkPad:~/android-src/android-x86$ repo sync -j8

    This will download all the source

    >> environment setup


    ayx@ayx-ThinkPad:~/android-src/android-x86$ make clean
    ayx@ayx-ThinkPad:~/android-src/android-x86$ . build/envsetup.sh
    ayx@ayx-ThinkPad:~/android-src/android-x86$ lunch

    Choose : “android_x86_64-userdebug”

    ============================================
    PLATFORM_VERSION_CODENAME=REL
    PLATFORM_VERSION=9
    TARGET_PRODUCT=android_x86_64
    TARGET_BUILD_VARIANT=userdebug
    TARGET_BUILD_TYPE=release
    TARGET_ARCH=x86_64
    TARGET_ARCH_VARIANT=x86_64
    TARGET_2ND_ARCH=x86
    TARGET_2ND_ARCH_VARIANT=x86_64
    HOST_ARCH=x86_64
    HOST_2ND_ARCH=x86
    HOST_OS=linux
    HOST_OS_EXTRA=Linux-5.0.0-29-generic-x86_64-Ubuntu-18.04.3-LTS
    HOST_CROSS_OS=windows
    HOST_CROSS_ARCH=x86
    HOST_CROSS_2ND_ARCH=x86_64
    HOST_BUILD_TYPE=release
    BUILD_ID=PI
    OUT_DIR=out
    ============================================

    >> Obtaining Network card info


    ayx@ayx-ThinkPad:~/android-src/android-x86$ lspci | awk '/[Nn]et/ {print $1}' | xargs -i% lspci -ks %
    03:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation Centrino Wireless-N 2230 (rev c4)
    Subsystem: Intel Corporation Centrino Wireless-N 2230 BGN
    Kernel driver in use: iwlwifi
    Kernel modules: iwlwifi
    0c:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet
    Controller (rev 07)
    Subsystem: Lenovo RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet Controller
    Kernel driver in use: r8169
    Kernel modules: r8169

    Take note of the network card’s kernel module names

    >> Customization of the Kernel


    ayx@ayx-ThinkPad:~/android-src/android-x86$ make -C kernel O=$OUT/obj/kernel ARCH=x86 menuconfig
    Now the standard Linux kernel customization graphical interface in terminal will show up
    [make sure your terminal is wide and long enough ]

    Note: The configuration file is the default .config

    Browse to >Device Drivers > Network device support


    │ <*> Virtio network driver

    Browse to >Device Drivers > Network Device Support > Ethernet Driver Support
    │ <*> Realtek 8169 gigabit ethernet support

    In a similar way you can change the kernel as you want

    >> Now copy this config file to build systems’ actual config files’ location
    ayx@ayx-ThinkPad:~/android-src/android-x86$ cp out/target/product/x86_64/obj/kernel/.config
    kernel/arch/x86/configs/

    >> Now rename the .config file


    ayx@ayx-ThinkPad:~/android-src/android-x86/kernel/arch/x86/configs$ mv .config my_x86_64_conf_20190923

    >> Now build the kernel only


    ayx@ayx-ThinkPad:~/android-src/android-x86$ nproc
    8
    ayx@ayx-ThinkPad:~/android-src/android-x86$ make -j8 kernel

    The build took around 25 minutes

    The built kernel is at out/target/product/x86_64/


    The kernel modules are at out/target/product/x86_64/system/lib/modules/

    >> Now we will build the final image with the kernel we just built

    ayx@ayx-ThinkPad:~/android-src/android-x86$ make iso_img -j8 TARGET_PRODUCT=android_x86_64


    TARGET_PREBUILT_KERNEL=~/android-src/android-x86/out/target/product/x86_64/kernel

    Total translation table size: 23151


    Total rockridge attributes bytes: 10128
    Total directory bytes: 24576
    Path table size(bytes): 130
    Done with: The File(s) Block(s) 342143
    Writing: Ending Padblock Start Block 342197
    Done with: Ending Padblock Block(s) 150
    Max brk space used 23000
    342347 extents written (668 MB)

    out/target/product/x86_64/android_x86_64.iso is built successfully.

    #### build completed successfully (08:51:29 (hh:mm:ss)) ####

    >> Android-x86 installation on VM

    Open Virtual Box >> Create new machine , choose linux type , create a virtual disk
    From Settings -> storage -> Select the ISO you built

    Now boot the machine , select installation of hard disk , Use GPT to write partition table
    Create a partition out of the free space of the VDI , format by EXT4 , then GRUB will be asked but GRUB won’t work
    on a GPT partitioned so MBR will be used

    Enable 3D and 2D acceleration , after installation completed remove iso attachment , these are shown in the pictures
    below

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