Ubuntu Emulator not working

**zacharyi123** · March 8th, 2014

I recently installed the latest daily build (PC (Intel x86) desktop image) of Trusty from here: http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/daily-live/current/

Ubuntu works perfectly! I decided to try out ubuntu touch using the ubuntu-emulator to see if I like it. Eventually I will use this to make and test ubuntu apps.

I ran these commands to install, create and run ubuntu-emulator:

sudo apt-get install ubuntu-emulator
sudo ubuntu-emulator create myinstance
ubuntu-emulator run myinstance

The first two worked fine and when I ran the third, a virtual phone appeared however the virtual screen was blank. I waited and waited, but nothing happened, the screen remained blank/black (on the virtual phone). Then I notice I have to log in terminal. I entered phablet then phablet and logged in fine.

Now I have the terminal logged in and a virtual kernel of the phone but the screen is blank. How can I start the graphics?

Also, once I've got the screen working, can I reduce the window size (it doesn't all fit on one desktop)?
Thanks! -Zach

**kostkon** · March 8th, 2014

Originally Posted by zacharyi123

The first two worked fine and when I ran the third, a virtual phone appeared however the virtual screen was blank. I waited and waited, but nothing happened, the screen remained blank/black (on the virtual phone). Then I notice I have to log in terminal. I entered phablet then phablet and logged in fine.

Now I have the terminal logged in and a virtual kernel of the phone but the screen is blank. How can I start the graphics?

Same here, ran it a couple of times, got a blank screen. I logged in and ran unity8 again, it restarted and then I got graphics but unity was messy and buggy; that didn't work the second time though. So, I can't give you a definite solution for that.

Originally Posted by zacharyi123

Also, once I've got the screen working, can I reduce the window size (it doesn't all fit on one desktop)?
Thanks! -Zach

Yes, to scale it down for example to 80% of its size you would do:

Code:

ubuntu-emulator run --scale 0.8 myinstance

Anyways, even if you manage to make it work, it will be slow. The good news is that the x86 version of the emulator is coming out soon and it's obviously, much faster than this.