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.
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.
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.
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
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/
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
