I am trying to run a emulator from the Android source by loading the goldfish kernel with some of my configuration changes. Though I found a lot of questions on this, but could not find my answer. 1. I downloaded the android source. 2. I also successfully built my goldfish kernel. Now I can see the zImage in the /goldfish/arch/arm/boot folder. After this I tried running this emulator by referring to a lot of similar questions. Building Android from source - emulator and AVDs, Running emulator after building Android from source, How to compile android goldfish 3.4 kernel and run on emulator. But unfortunately didn't solve my problem. When I try to run the emulator with :
./emulator -debug init -kernel Thepath/goldfish/arch/arm/boot/zImage -avd firstAvd -wipe-data
I get an error that AVD is not found. I then found this blog, https://yaapb.wordpress.com/2012/09/22/build-a-custom-android-emulator-image/ where it says to first make the emulator from the source tree by the following commands:
$ source build/envsetup.sh
$ lunch full-eng
$ make -j4
$ emulator -wipe-data &
Then to run the emulator with my modified kernel, I need to run :
$ cd ${ANDROID_BUILD_TOP}
$ emulator -kernel ~/workspace/android/goldfish/arch/arm/boot/zImage -wipe-data &
Though I am trying to do this, the process of creating the emulator with the make command is taking hours. 7% in 90 mins till now. So in the mean time I wanted to know if anyone can tell me that to run an emulator with my kernel, do I need to first create an emulator from the source? Also, I dont find the system.img, ramdisk.img files in the android source tree. Is it normal or I ge them when I create an emulator?
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EDIT
** I would also like to know if I can run the emulator without the make -j4. The Android source tree also includes the SDK. Can I run the Emulator from the SDK. If yes, how? The google official docs say to run the following command form the /tools folder in the sdk. But there is no tools folder in the sdk folder.
