Android-x86

Run Android on your PC

Release Note 6.0-rc2

(2016/08/15)

The Android-x86 project is glad to announce the 6.0-rc2 release to public. This is the second release candidate for Android-x86 6.0 (marshmallow-x86). The prebuilt images are available in the following site:

Key Features

The 6.0-rc2 release is based on the latest Android Marshmallow-MR2 release (6.0.1_r61) with all AOSP security patches applied. We fixed a lot of issues found in the since 6.0-rc1 and added more features:

Launch the Android-x86 Analytics Program to collect anonymous data from users.

Update kernel to 4.4.17 with more upstream patches.

Update Mesa to 12.0.1. The unstable issues of i965/i915/Nvidia GPUs found in 6.0-rc1 are fixed.

Fix software rendering crashing issues on VM like QEMU and VirtualBox.

Fix modules auto loading method to improve hardware compatibility.

Improve audio hal sound card selection.

Auto-mount USB/sdcard with ext4/ntfs/exfat/vfat filesystems.

Add back SDCARD=xxx function to vold 3.0.

RTC time is set to local.

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-rc2.iso sha1sum: d05874e2591d18f45f4463f53b0bcb00b7731e15

64-bit: android-x86_64-6.0-rc2.iso sha1sum: 8de2faf6c1cae7eee64dbc4d375bcfe359cbb777

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

dd if=android-x86-6.0-rc2.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

The display of built-in browser messes up sometimes on Skylake GPU.

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.