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Debug Howto - Android-X86 - Porting Android To x86

This document provides instructions for debugging Android-x86 using adb (Android Debug Bridge) and gdb (GNU debugger) on a VirtualBox virtual machine: 1. Use adb by configuring the VirtualBox network, finding the VM's IP address, and connecting adb on the host to port 5555 on the VM. 2. For NAT'd VMs, port forward a host port like 5555 to the VM's port 5555 to allow adb connectivity. 3. Use gdbserver preinstalled on the VM and gdb on the host to remotely debug processes, setting shared library paths and attaching or running the target binary.

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Debug Howto - Android-X86 - Porting Android To x86

This document provides instructions for debugging Android-x86 using adb (Android Debug Bridge) and gdb (GNU debugger) on a VirtualBox virtual machine: 1. Use adb by configuring the VirtualBox network, finding the VM's IP address, and connecting adb on the host to port 5555 on the VM. 2. For NAT'd VMs, port forward a host port like 5555 to the VM's port 5555 to allow adb connectivity. 3. Use gdbserver preinstalled on the VM and gdb on the host to remotely debug processes, setting shared library paths and attaching or running the target binary.

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This page explains how to use adb and gdbserver with VirtualBox

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1. use adb: In the VirtualBox network configuration, it is simplest to configure it for Host-Only or Bridged. boot up Android iso image on the VirtualBox. setup ethernet (normally, it will do DHCP by default) find the IP address of the android VM, by going to the console <Alt-F1> and then typing: netcfg you can go back to the UI by pressing <Alt-F7> on you host machine, cd <android source code root directory>/out/host/linuxx86/bin/ ./adb kill-server ./adb connect <VirtualBox IP address>:5555, after this command, you should see something like below * daemon not running. starting it now * * daemon started successfully * connected to <VirtualBox IP address>:5555 ./adb logcat to dump the debug log 2. using adb with a NAT'ed VM The steps above work nicely if you have a VM which is set up to use Bridged or Host-Only adapters However, if you have a NAT'ed VM you cannot connect to the VM IP from the host You will need to set up port forwarding for a host port to be forwarded to the VM port 5555 (which is adb) VBoxManage modifyvm <VMName> --natpf1 adb,tcp,*,<localport>,*,5555 Example from one machine:

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VBoxManage modifyvm froyo --natpf1 adb,tcp,*,5555,*,5555 Once this is done, you should see the local port (i.e. 5555 in this case) bound on the host via netstat -a You can now connect to the VM by adb localhost:5555 3. how to use gdb with gdbserver: Android-x86 comes with a preinstalled gdbserver. And you can find it in /sbin/gdbserver. To use gdb to debug your process, you need to: set up host-only network as mentioned earlier in the terminal emulator, run su in the terminal emulator, run gdbserver <VirtualBox ip address>:1234 [application binary name with the path] or [--attach pid] on your host machine, run gdb [path of your application binary] gdb > target remote <VirtualBox ip address>:1234 gdb > set solib-search-path <the path to all the shared library binaries> gdb > c 4. Stop zygote to run automatically: in the vendor/asus/eeepc/init.rc, change following lines service zygote /system/bin/app_process -Xzygote /system/bin --zygote --start-system-server socket zygote stream 666 onrestart write /sys/android_power/request_state wake onrestart write /sys/power/state on to: service zygote /system/bin/app_process -Xzygote /system/bin --zygote --start-system-server socket zygote stream 666 onrestart write /sys/android_power/request_state wake onrestart write /sys/power/state on disabled oneshot To start zygote manually just do "start zygote" from the command line.

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