Apps Android Development in VirtualBox

[Elzair]

I have a Motorola Droid and a Windows 7 PC, and I want to do some Android development. Since I am more comfortable with Linux, I have used VirtualBox to create a virtual Ubuntu 10.10 installation. However, I do not know how to make my virtual Ubuntu system detect my Droid when it is plugged in via USB. Windows 7 detects it just fine, of course. I created a USB device filter for the phone in VirtualBox's Settings menu. Here are the settings it gives:

Name: Motorola A855 [0216]
Vendor ID: 22b8
Product ID: 41d9
Revision: 0216
Manufacturer: Motorola
Product: Motorola A855
Serial No.: 040388A102008007

Does anyone have any advice?

 

[PSkeptic]

Did you install the SDK in Ubuntu?

 

[Elzair]

BTW, I also installed the VirtualBox Extension Pack, to add USB support, and it is still not working.

 

[Elzair]

Did you install the SDK in Ubuntu?

I thought I should get it to actually recognize the phone first. I assume that it would show up as a regular USB device like it did on my old Ubuntu machine.

 

[idavis]

Why don't you do this? My Android app development environment resides on an 8gb memory stick. I used Ubuntu to create a bootable usb stick with the 'stored reserved space' maxed out. I then boot the memory stick which I have installed the android sdk to. That might be a faster, and more reliable alternative. When you want to switch back to windows, just reboot and remove the usb stick.