-
Make sure virtualization with KVM is available.
grep -c -w "vmx\|svm" /proc/cpuinfo
This should return a non-zero value. If running on a cloud machine, this may take cloud-vendor-specific steps to enable. For Google Compute Engine specifically, see the GCE guide.
*** promo ARM specific steps:
- When running on an ARM machine, the most direct way is to check
for the existence of
/dev/kvm
. Note that this method can also be used to confirm support of KVM on any environment.
-
Download, build, and install the host debian packages:
sudo apt install -y git devscripts config-package-dev debhelper-compat golang curl git clone https://github.com/google/android-cuttlefish cd android-cuttlefish for dir in base frontend; do cd $dir debuild -i -us -uc -b -d cd .. done sudo dpkg -i ./cuttlefish-base_*_*64.deb || sudo apt-get install -f sudo dpkg -i ./cuttlefish-user_*_*64.deb || sudo apt-get install -f sudo usermod -aG kvm,cvdnetwork,render $USER sudo reboot
The reboot will trigger installing additional kernel modules and applying udev rules.
-
Go to http://ci.android.com/
-
Enter a branch name. Start with
aosp-main
if you don't know what you're looking for -
Navigate to
aosp_cf_x86_64_phone
and click onuserdebug
for the latest build
*** promo
For ARM, use branch aosp-main-throttled
and device target aosp_cf_arm64_only_phone-trunk_staging-userdebug
-
Click on
Artifacts
-
Scroll down to the OTA images. These packages look like
aosp_cf_x86_64_phone-img-xxxxxx.zip
-- it will always haveimg
in the name. Download this file -
Scroll down to
cvd-host_package.tar.gz
. You should always download a host package from the same build as your images. -
On your local system, combine the packages:
mkdir cf cd cf tar xvf /path/to/cvd-host_package.tar.gz unzip /path/to/aosp_cf_x86_64_phone-img-xxxxxx.zip
-
Launch cuttlefish with:
$ HOME=$PWD ./bin/launch_cvd
You can use adb
to debug it, just like a physical device:
$ ./bin/adb -e shell
When launching with ---start_webrtc
(the default), you can see a list of all
available devices at https://localhost:8443
. For more information, see the
WebRTC on Cuttlefish
documentation.
You will need to stop the virtual device within the same directory as you used to launch the device.
$ HOME=$PWD ./bin/stop_cvd