The 8.1-r6 is mainly a security updates of 8.1-r5 with some bugfixes. We encourage users of 8.1-r5 or older releases upgrade to this one.
This release contains these files. You can choose one of them depends on your devices. Most modern devices should be able to run the 64-bit ISO. For older devices with legacy BIOS, you may try the 32-bit ISO.
sha1sum: c008d02f1001d6d3104a985d410b7538521646b0
sha1sum: 00af73aab8336669dddbbd7050837aaab5486e08
sha1sum: 0b90e15c33bea17b3b85d1cb17197bd48f3eb981
sha1sum: ab0fc8f892fb0380e17afb5bf777bd0364d07b85
sha1sum: 313124ea2f8647b09321e20b56e0d5cb9417e0de
Recommended for VMware users
To use an ISO file, Linux users can dump it into a usb drive by dd command like:
dd if=android-x86_64-8.1-r6.iso of=/dev/sdX
where /dev/sdX is the device name of your usb drive.
Windows's users can use the tool Win32 Disk Imager to create a bootable usb stick.
Please read this page about how to install it to the device.
Except the traditional ISO files, we also package android-x86 files into a Linux package rpm. It allows Linux users to easily install the release into an existing Linux device with a standalone ext4 root partition. On an rpm based device (Fedora/Red Hat/CentOS/SUSE...), just install it like a normal rpm package:
sudo rpm -Uvh android-x86-8.1-r6.x86_64.rpm
This will update your older installation like 7.1-r5 or 8.1-r5 if you have.
On a deb based device (Debian/Ubuntu/LinuxMint/...), please use the alien tool to install it:
sudo apt install alien
sudo alien -ci android-x86-8.1-r6.x86_64.rpm
All files will be installed to the /android-8.1-r6/ subdirectory and boot entries will be added to grub2 menu. Reboot and choose android-x86 item from the menu to boot Android-x86. Alternatively, you can launch Android-x86 in a QEMU virtual machine by the installed qemu-android script:
sudo qemu-android
Note Android-x86 running in QEMU and the real machine (after rebooting) share the same data sub-folder.
To uninstall it :sudo rpm -e android-x86
sudo apt-get remove android-x86
repo init -u git://git.osdn.net/gitroot/android-x86/manifest -b oreo-x86 -m android-x86-8.1-r6.xml
repo sync --no-tags --no-clone-bundle
Please read this page for how to compile source code.
To build 8.1-r6 with kernel 4.9, sync the source tree as above commands, and add KERNEL_DIR=kernel-4.9 to the build command like:
source build/envsetup.sh; lunch android_x86_64-userdebug
m -j4 iso_img KERNEL_DIR=kernel-4.9