From 5116546c028356e19a32479c799f48348c14cbcd Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Kyle Manna Date: Sun, 16 Nov 2014 10:55:34 -0800 Subject: [PATCH] README: Help the OS X and Windows lusers * Help the users of handicapped operating systems. * All in fun... --- README.md | 10 ++++++++++ 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+) diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index 8b0908e..a3492fb 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -13,6 +13,16 @@ Docker image and environment. This eliminate most surprises in breakages by by empowering developers and production builds to use the exact same environment. The hope is that breakages will be caught earlier by the devs. +This only works (well) on Linux. Running this via `boot2docker` will result in +a very painful performacne hit due to VirtualBox's `vboxsf` shared folder +service which works terrible for **very** large builds like AOSP. It might +work, but consider youself warned. If you're aware of another way to get +around this, send a pull request! + +For *Mac OS X* and *Windows* users, consider +[kylemanna/vagrant-aosp](https://github.com/kylemanna/vagrant-aosp) as a good +virtual machine to enable development. + Quickstart ----------