Android-x86

Run Android on your PC

Release Note 7.1-r1

(2018/02/06)

The Android-x86 project is glad to announce the 7.1-r1 release to public. This is the first stable release for Android-x86 7.1 (nougat-x86). The prebuilt images are available in the following site:

Key Features

The 7.1-r1 release is based on the latest Android Nougat-MR2 release (7.1.2_r36). We have fixed most issues found in the since 7.1-rc2 and added more features:

Android-x86 installer was improved a lot including:

Create EFI boot entry to efibootmgr.



Add auto-installation function which is useful to install Android-x86 as the only one OS.



Provide more information on disk and partition selection menu.



Add advanced options to provide more boot options.



Save the last choice in grub2 menu.

Update kernel to the LTS kernel 4.9.80 with more patches from AOSP.

Add a new HAL for iio type sensors.

Show poweroff menu by ctrl-alt-del.

Fix a lot of bugs.

Released Files

This release contains four files. You can choose one of these files depends on your devices.

64-bit ISO: android-x86_64-7.1-r1.iso sha1sum: bbefcdab4167bfa83f7dd6011af072f2b6a00294

32-bit ISO: android-x86-7.1-r1.iso sha1sum: f9bbcd09f83e83baa71fe228fe2c2d3e77b1c55a

64-bit rpm: android-x86-7.1-r1.x86_64.rpm sha1sum: a9caf47021883bbd439797ef54b828a36b738952

32-bit rpm: android-x86-7.1-r1.i686.rpm sha1sum: 99b9ca1e0b7a35eabf948858be8b8d2b8366614c

To use an ISO file, Linux users could just dump it into a usb drive to create a bootable usb stick like :

dd if=android-x86-7.1-r1.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.

In doubt, try the 32-bit files for legacy BIOS devices and 64-bit files for UEFI devices. 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-x86-7.1-r1.x86_64.rpm

This will update your older installation like 6.0-r3 or 7.1-rc2 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-x86-7.1-r1.x86_64.rpm

All files will be installed to the /android-7.1-r1/ 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

or (on Debian/Ubuntu/LinuxMint/...)

sudo apt-get remove android-x86

Known Issues

Google Play Service may crash sometimes on the 32-bit image.

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 android-x86-7.1-r1

repo sync --no-tags --no-clone-bundle

Read this page for how to compile source code.