Run a Custom ROM on an AVD

Question

Does anyone know if this it is possible to run a Custom ROM on a AVD? ANd how can I do this? Thanks

Monophysite

Answer 1

If you build a custom rom by yourself, after you've built a custom rom you can launch it with the command emulator. But to do this you need at first to build your rom for emulator (usually, full-generic lunch option). If not you can just copy necessary images and also run them using emulator command. For instance, I usually copy .sh script in the folder with Android sources and run this script:

out/host/linux-x86/bin/emulator -sysdir out/target/product/generic/ -system out/target/product/generic/system.img -ramdisk out/target/product/generic/ramdisk.img -data out/target/product/generic/userdata.img -kernel prebuilt/android-arm/kernel/kernel-qemu -sdcard sdcard.img -skindir sdk/emulator/skins -skin WVGA800 -scale 0.7 -memory 512 -wipe-data -partition-size 200

Haarlem

Sry, i dont have running a linux – Monophysite

If you have this rom (build for emulator) you can just find other images that are required for running emulator (userdata.img and so on) (you download them with the SDK), copy them into the folder and run emulator command (emulator tool is also a part of SDK) and specify parameters (set the path to your folder with images). – Haarlem

You provided a custom script for your setup. Could you explain the -kernel option (say I want to run a kernel in a boot.img image)? – Sunny