Hi,
I just release the 6.0-r3 as the third stable release
of marshmallow-x86.
Though this is just a minor update from
AOSP and other upstream projects,
there are still some new features that
I hope to highlight:
* CD/DVD auto-mount
On a device with CD/DVD drive, Android-x86
can auto-mount it now.
That means you can read files on
a CD/DVD disk, or play video from CD/DVD
via a media player app supporting VOB files.
You can find such a player in Google Play.
However, audio CD is not supported yet.
There are still some issues to use
a hot-plugged USB CD/DVD drive.
It seems vold checks the drive too early
before the drive is ready so it thinks
the drive is broken. I don't have time or
knowledge to find a quick fix yet.
Fortunately you can workaround it by
the command (by root)
blkid /dev/block/sr0
This shouldn't happen in a built-in CD/DVD drive.
* A qemu-android script for Linux users
When you installed the released rpm to
a Linux host, you can launch Android-x86
in the QEMU virtual machine directly
by the new qemu-android script:
$ sudo qemu-android
The root privilege is necessary if you hope
to save data in the Linux host filesystem.
Without root you can still launch Android-x86
in live mode.
Note Android-x86 running in QEMU (with root) and
the real machine (after rebooting) shares the same
data sub-folder. That means you can exchange
data between Android-x86 and the Linux host
easier.
--
Chih-Wei
Android-x86 project
http://www.android-x86.org