Android-x86

Run Android on your PC

Release Note 5.1-rc1

(2015/10/07)

The The Android-x86 project is glad to announce 5.1-rc1 release to public. This is the first release candidate for Android-x86 5.1 (lollipop-x86) stable release. The prebuilt images are available in the following site:

Key Features

The 5.1-rc1 release is based on the Android 5.1.1_r24. We added many x86 specified code and fixed issues to let the system runs smoothly on x86 platforms, especially for netbooks or tablets. The key features contain

Supports 64-bit kernel and userspace, as well as 32-bit system.
Update kernel to 4.0.9.
Enable OpenGL ES hardware acceleration for Intel/AMD(radeon/radeonsi)/Nvidia(nouveau) chipsets.
Support booting from UEFI and installing to UEFI disk.
Be able to install to ext4/ext3/ext2/ntfs/fat32 filesystems via a text based GUI installer.
Support Multi-touch, Audio, Wifi, Bluetooth, Sensors, Camera and Ethernet (DHCP only).
Auto-mount external usb drive and sdcard with filesystem vfat/ntfs/exfat/ext4.
Support VM including Qemu, VirtualBox and VMware.
Support foreign archs (arm / arm64) via the native bridge mechanism. (Settings -> Apps Compatibility)

Released Files

We create universal images for most x86 platforms. This release contains two files. One is the 32-bit x86 ISO and the other is the 64-bit x86_64 ISO. Both can be boot from legacy BIOS and newer UEFI firmware. You can choose one of them depends on your devices. In doubt, try the 32-bit ISO for legacy BIOS devices and 64-bit ISO for UEFI devices.

ISO image (32-bit): android-x86-5.1-rc1.iso
sha1sum: 33d1489195e8ca3e9b9c253848181e9cb5b311bf
EFI image (64-bit): android-x86_64-5.1-rc1.img
sha1sum: 56d559d186033a840076d0517ecb89d3c8cc46b5

Both files can be dumped into a usb drive to create a bootable usb stick like :

dd if=android-x86-5.1-rc1.iso of=/dev/sdX

where /dev/sdX is the device name of your usb drive.

Known Issues

Uvesafb doesn't work for x86_64.
Superuser doesn't work for x86_64.
Suspend and resume doesn't work on some devices.
No grub splah image.

Source code

The source code is available in the main git server.

                    repo init -u git://git.osdn.net/gitroot/android-x86/manifest -b lollipop-x86

                    repo sync

Read this page for how to compile source code.