Android-x86

Run Android on your PC

Release Note 6.0-rc1

(2016/08/15)

The Android-x86 project is glad to announce the 6.0-rc1 release to public. This is the first release candidate for Android-x86 6.0 (marshmallow-x86). The prebuilt images are available in the following site:

Key Features

The 6.0-rc1 release is based on the latest Android Nougat-MR2 release (6.0.1_r46). The key features include

Supports both 32-bit and 64-bit kernel and userspace.

Update kernel to 4.4.12.

Support OpenGL ES 3.x hardware acceleration for Intel/AMD(radeon/radeonsi)/Nvidia(nouveau) chipsets, as well as VMware and QEMU(virgl).

Support OpenGL ES 3.0 via software rendering for other GPUs or no GPU devices.

Support secure booting from UEFI and installing to UEFI disk.

Be able to install to ext4/ntfs/fat32 filesystems via a text based GUI installer.

Upgrading from older android-x86 release is improved. Older release using ext2/ext3 filesystem will be converted to ext4 for better reliability.

Support Multi-touch, Audio, Wifi, Bluetooth, Sensors, Camera and Ethernet (DHCP only).

Auto-mount external usb drive and sdcard.

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.

32-bit: android-x86-6.0-rc1.iso sha1sum: 74ef1b507a348df878a8ca1046b548e5ac5d63da

64-bit: android-x86_64-6.0-rc1.iso sha1sum: 5938bfd258c3fcf3b745f5aa6dec8cb016988fd1

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

dd if=android-x86-6.0-rc1.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.

Known Issues

Google Play service crashes sometimes on Intel Gen8+ GPUs.

Google Play service and built-in Browser crash on a software rendering device.

Suspend and resume doesn't work on some devices.

Source code

The source code is available in the main git server.

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

repo sync

Read this page for how to compile source code.