I have been trying an Android Virtual Machine called androVM on an Ubuntu 12.04 32 bit laptop with Intel/Nvidia hybrid graphics configuration as the guest OS (details on the graphic cards below). I tested some of the graphics-intense applications, like Angry Birds, and AnTuTu, a benchmarking application, running virtualbox
and AndroVMplayer
with primusrun
, but they seem really slow, no difference whatsoever as when run without primusrun
. I have also tried optirun
, which simply crashes with a segfault. How can I enable OpenGL acceleration for this VM in my hybrid graphics system?
The AndroVM version I am running is this one:
androVM_vbox86tp_4.1.1_r6.1-20130222-gapps-houdini-flash.ova
And I am following the installation instructions as explained here:
AndroVM 20130222 release | AndroVM blog
Under Virtualbox, I have the switched Graphics options set to 128MB Video Memory and Enabled 3D Acceleration and 2D Acceleration. My host BIOS has its virtualisation options activated. Here are my hardware details:
sudo primusrun lshw -class display
*-display
description: VGA compatible controller
product: GT218 [GeForce 310M]
vendor: NVIDIA Corporation
physical id: 0
bus info: pci@0000:01:00.0
version: a2
width: 64 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pm msi pciexpress vga_controller bus_master cap_list rom
configuration: driver=nvidia latency=0
resources: irq:16 memory:d2000000-d2ffffff memory:c0000000-cfffffff memory:d0000000-d1ffffff ioport:d000(size=128) memory:d3000000-d307ffff
*-display
description: VGA compatible controller
product: Core Processor Integrated Graphics Controller
vendor: Intel Corporation
physical id: 2
bus info: pci@0000:00:02.0
version: 18
width: 64 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: msi pm vga_controller bus_master cap_list rom
configuration: driver=i915 latency=0
resources: irq:52 memory:d3400000-d37fffff memory:b0000000-bfffffff ioport:e080(size=8)
When using optirun ./AndroVMplayer
, I get this:
[VGL] WARNING: The OpenGL rendering context obtained on X display
[VGL] :8 is indirect, which may cause performance to suffer.
[VGL] If :8 is a local X display, then the framebuffer device
[VGL] permissions may be set incorrectly.
Got command 1002
Got command 1002
Got command 1
Got command 1002
Segmentation fault (core dumped)
And here are the details of my virtualbox installation:
dpkg -l virtualbox* | grep ii
ii virtualbox 4.1.12-dfsg-2ubuntu0.2 x86 virtualization solution - base binaries
ii virtualbox-dkms 4.1.12-dfsg-2ubuntu0.2 x86 virtualization solution - kernel module sources for dkms
ii virtualbox-guest-additions 4.1.12-1 transitional package for virtualbox-guest-additions-iso
ii virtualbox-guest-additions-iso 4.1.12-1 guest additions iso image for VirtualBox
ii virtualbox-guest-dkms 4.1.12-dfsg-2ubuntu0.2 x86 virtualization solution - guest addition module source for dkms
ii virtualbox-guest-utils 4.1.12-dfsg-2ubuntu0.2 x86 virtualization solution - non-X11 guest utilities
ii virtualbox-guest-x11 4.1.12-dfsg-2ubuntu0.2 x86 virtualization solution - X11 guest utilities
ii virtualbox-qt 4.1.12-dfsg-2ubuntu0.2 x86 virtualization solution - Qt based user interface
If I run it with optirun
, I get the following error:
> [VGL] WARNING: The OpenGL rendering context obtained on X display
> [VGL] :8 is indirect, which may cause performance to suffer. [VGL]
> If :8 is a local X display, then the framebuffer device [VGL]
> permissions may be set incorrectly.
> sdk/emulator/opengl/host/libs/Translator/GLES_V2/GLESv2Imp.cpp:glUseProgram:1913
> error 0x501
> sdk/emulator/opengl/host/libs/Translator/GLES_V2/GLESv2Imp.cpp:glUseProgram:1913
> error 0x501
> sdk/emulator/opengl/host/libs/Translator/GLES_V2/GLESv2Imp.cpp:glUseProgram:1913
> error 0x501
> sdk/emulator/opengl/host/libs/Translator/GLES_V2/GLESv2Imp.cpp:glUseProgram:1913
> error 0x501
> sdk/emulator/opengl/host/libs/Translator/GLES_V2/GLESv2Imp.cpp:glUseProgram:1913
> error 0x501
> sdk/emulator/opengl/host/libs/Translator/GLES_V2/GLESv2Imp.cpp:glCompileShader:351
> error 0x501
> sdk/emulator/opengl/host/libs/Translator/GLES_V2/GLESv2Imp.cpp:glGetShaderiv:1215
> error 0x501
> sdk/emulator/opengl/host/libs/Translator/GLES_V2/GLESv2Imp.cpp:glGetShaderInfoLog:1238
> error 0x501
> sdk/emulator/opengl/host/libs/Translator/GLES_V2/GLESv2Imp.cpp:glUseProgram:1913
> error 0x501
> sdk/emulator/opengl/host/libs/Translator/GLES_V2/GLESv2Imp.cpp:glGetUniformLocation:1382
> error 0x501
> sdk/emulator/opengl/host/libs/Translator/GLES_V2/GLESv2Imp.cpp:glUseProgram:1913
> error 0x501
> sdk/emulator/opengl/host/libs/Translator/GLES_V2/GLESv2Imp.cpp:glUseProgram:1913
> error 0x501
> sdk/emulator/opengl/host/libs/Translator/GLES_V2/GLESv2Imp.cpp:glUseProgram:1913
> error 0x501
> sdk/emulator/opengl/host/libs/Translator/GLES_V2/GLESv2Imp.cpp:glUseProgram:1913
> error 0x501
> sdk/emulator/opengl/host/libs/Translator/GLES_V2/GLESv2Imp.cpp:glCompileShader:351
> error 0x501
> sdk/emulator/opengl/host/libs/Translator/GLES_V2/GLESv2Imp.cpp:glGetShaderiv:1215
> error 0x501
> sdk/emulator/opengl/host/libs/Translator/GLES_V2/GLESv2Imp.cpp:glGetShaderInfoLog:1238
> error 0x501
> sdk/emulator/opengl/host/libs/Translator/GLES_V2/GLESv2Imp.cpp:glGetUniformLocation:1382
> error 0x501
> sdk/emulator/opengl/host/libs/Translator/GLES_V2/GLESv2Imp.cpp:glGetUniformLocation:1382
> error 0x501
> sdk/emulator/opengl/host/libs/Translator/GLES_V2/GLESv2Imp.cpp:glUseProgram:1913
> error 0x501
> sdk/emulator/opengl/host/libs/Translator/GLES_V2/GLESv2Imp.cpp:glUseProgram:1913
> error 0x501
> sdk/emulator/opengl/host/libs/Translator/GLES_V2/GLESv2Imp.cpp:glUseProgram:1913
> error 0x501
> sdk/emulator/opengl/host/libs/Translator/GLES_V2/GLESv2Imp.cpp:glUseProgram:1913
> error 0x501
> sdk/emulator/opengl/host/libs/Translator/GLES_V2/GLESv2Imp.cpp:glUseProgram:1913
> error 0x501
> sdk/emulator/opengl/host/libs/Translator/GLES_V2/GLESv2Imp.cpp:glUseProgram:1913
> error 0x501
> sdk/emulator/opengl/host/libs/Translator/GLES_V2/GLESv2Imp.cpp:glUseProgram:1913
> error 0x501
> sdk/emulator/opengl/host/libs/Translator/GLES_V2/GLESv2Imp.cpp:glUseProgram:1913
> error 0x501
> sdk/emulator/opengl/host/libs/Translator/GLES_V2/GLESv2Imp.cpp:glUseProgram:1913
> error 0x501
> sdk/emulator/opengl/host/libs/Translator/GLES_V2/GLESv2Imp.cpp:glCompileShader:351
> error 0x501
> sdk/emulator/opengl/host/libs/Translator/GLES_V2/GLESv2Imp.cpp:glGetShaderiv:1215
> error 0x501
> sdk/emulator/opengl/host/libs/Translator/GLES_V2/GLESv2Imp.cpp:glGetShaderInfoLog:1238
> error 0x501
> sdk/emulator/opengl/host/libs/Translator/GLES_V2/GLESv2Imp.cpp:glGetUniformLocation:1382
> error 0x501
> sdk/emulator/opengl/host/libs/Translator/GLES_V2/GLESv2Imp.cpp:glGetUniformLocation:1382
> error 0x501
> sdk/emulator/opengl/host/libs/Translator/GLES_V2/GLESv2Imp.cpp:glUseProgram:1913
> error 0x501
> sdk/emulator/opengl/host/libs/Translator/GLES_V2/GLESv2Imp.cpp:glCompileShader:351
> error 0x501
> sdk/emulator/opengl/host/libs/Translator/GLES_V2/GLESv2Imp.cpp:glGetShaderiv:1215
> error 0x501
> sdk/emulator/opengl/host/libs/Translator/GLES_V2/GLESv2Imp.cpp:glGetShaderInfoLog:1238
> error 0x501
> sdk/emulator/opengl/host/libs/Translator/GLES_V2/GLESv2Imp.cpp:glUseProgram:1913
> error 0x501
> sdk/emulator/opengl/host/libs/Translator/GLES_V2/GLESv2Imp.cpp:glGetUniformLocation:1382
> error 0x501
> sdk/emulator/opengl/host/libs/Translator/GLES_V2/GLESv2Imp.cpp:glGetUniformLocation:1382
> error 0x501
> sdk/emulator/opengl/host/libs/Translator/GLES_V2/GLESv2Imp.cpp:glGetUniformLocation:1382
> error 0x501
> sdk/emulator/opengl/host/libs/Translator/GLES_V2/GLESv2Imp.cpp:glUseProgram:1913
> error 0x501
> sdk/emulator/opengl/host/libs/Translator/GLES_V2/GLESv2Imp.cpp:glUseProgram:1913
> error 0x501
> sdk/emulator/opengl/host/libs/Translator/GLES_V2/GLESv2Imp.cpp:glUseProgram:1913
> error 0x501
> sdk/emulator/opengl/host/libs/Translator/GLES_V2/GLESv2Imp.cpp:glUseProgram:1913
> error 0x501
> sdk/emulator/opengl/host/libs/Translator/GLES_V2/GLESv2Imp.cpp:glUseProgram:1913
> error 0x501
> sdk/emulator/opengl/host/libs/Translator/GLES_V2/GLESv2Imp.cpp:glUseProgram:1913
> error 0x501
> sdk/emulator/opengl/host/libs/Translator/GLES_V2/GLESv2Imp.cpp:glUseProgram:1913
> error 0x501
> sdk/emulator/opengl/host/libs/Translator/GLES_V2/GLESv2Imp.cpp:glUseProgram:1913
> error 0x501
> sdk/emulator/opengl/host/libs/Translator/GLES_V2/GLESv2Imp.cpp:glCompileShader:351
> error 0x501
> sdk/emulator/opengl/host/libs/Translator/GLES_V2/GLESv2Imp.cpp:glGetShaderiv:1215
> error 0x501
> sdk/emulator/opengl/host/libs/Translator/GLES_V2/GLESv2Imp.cpp:glGetShaderInfoLog:1238
> error 0x501
> sdk/emulator/opengl/host/libs/Translator/GLES_V2/GLESv2Imp.cpp:glUseProgram:1913
> error 0x501
> sdk/emulator/opengl/host/libs/Translator/GLES_V2/GLESv2Imp.cpp:glGetUniformLocation:1382
> error 0x501
> sdk/emulator/opengl/host/libs/Translator/GLES_V2/GLESv2Imp.cpp:glGetUniformLocation:1382
> error 0x501
> sdk/emulator/opengl/host/libs/Translator/GLES_V2/GLESv2Imp.cpp:glUseProgram:1913
> error 0x501 AndroVMplayer: ../../src/xcb_conn.c:180: write_vec:
> Assertion `!c->out.queue_len' failed. Aborted (core dumped)
openGL uses specific rules when running an android environment. I'm not able to answer your question fully, but I can recommend you to an Android dev kit. developer.android.com/sdk/ Once this is set up, it will automatically configure your setup for optimum use of the rendering, and it can supply a 3d Android environment.
You colud try GenyMotion. It is only one click to set-up and runs in x86-mode.
It is really fast Android emulator.