No network connection - Android-x86 on VMWare Fusion

Question

I'm trying to come up with some kind of Android environment to use for development on Mac OSX.

It's proving quite difficult ( Android emulator laggy on Mac ). On my macbook the Android emulator is so slow that it is unusable. Note, I'm trying to build a tablet app, which seems to make things worse.

So far the best performance I've found is just running the x86 port of Android via VMWare fusion.

The only problem is the darn thing keeps giving a "No network connection" message.

I don't know much about VMWare, but I'm guessing that Android wants to use the virtual wifi adaptor, but VMWare fusion only provides a virtual ethernet adapter.

The image I'm currently testing is android-x86-3.2-RC2-eeepc.iso

What can I do about this?

Homeomorphism

Answer 1

Boot up Android x86, hit Alt+F1 (shows the shell). Put netcfg into and you get a IP.
Open a shell on, and write adb connect <theipyougot>into.
Now you should see your Emulator via adb devices and in Eclipse.

It can be possible, to play around with the VMWare Network Adapters. On VirtualBox I use a Host-only Adapter.

Reference: http://www.android-x86.org/documents/debug-howto
If you cant get it working, take a look at virtualbox (https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads)

Sandwich

Thanks for the reply. With netcfg it just shows that eth0 is not connected. I.e. eth0 DOWN 0.0.0.0/0 I don't get why it's not connecting. My macbook is connected to my local network via wireless. DHCP is turned on my router. I've tried using the virtual NAT / Bridged / Host-only methods for connecting the VM to the network. Nothing seems to work. I even tried Virtual Box, but it gives the same results as VMWare. – Homeomorphism

OK, I guess DHCP is not working for whatever reason. Networking is not my strong suit ;) I looked up the manual commands and got eth0 now working (code.google.com/p/live-android/wiki/networkhowto) – Homeomorphism

Thanks, giving you the tick cause you got me thinking about things and that's what helped me work it out. Plus, I hadn't actually learned what adb was yet, and now I can see that will work perfectly to debug my app via eclipse, straight onto the VM instance. Cheers. – Homeomorphism

netcfg was what I've searching for. I typed ifconfig instead. Well, android is not linux :) +1 – Caius

Answer 2

I try to use Eclipse connect to Android x86 setup in VMware several times. I found that it works well with Android-x86 2.2 for generic x86 PC. However, there are something wrong with Android-x86 3.2, it always show 127.0.0.1 when I set Bridged connection.

Easterling

I am using 2.2.2 now and whatever network adapter I use on VM Ware Fusion 7 on OSX Yosemite it just won't connect to the web. Only localhost shows up too. – Siliceous

Answer 3

you can use: dhcpcd eth0; dhcpcd eth1;

Ladanum

if dhcpd android replacement for dhclient? – Caius

Answer 4

1. install android x86 on vmware
2. run android terminal write command "ifconfig eth0"
3. "adb connect IP address of the VM:5555" now run your app on vmware

Wheelock

Answer 5

I just got the same issue on my Android 9.1 r6 to solve it I did the following (If your primary objective is to get internet connection on your guest android os):

1. Got to your virtual machine settings [Click on VMWare Title Bar and press Ctrl + D] or [Click on Player Button top left -> Select Manage -> Virtual Machine Settings]
2. On the settings popup, select | click on Network Adapter
3. Choose Custom: Specific virtual network
4. From the dropdown, select the VMnet8(NAT)
5. Click Ok
6. Restart or reboot your android machine and virtual WIFI will be enabled

Rheometer