Comments on: Download Android OS to run in a Virtual Machine

By: Chris

Chris — Sun, 28 Oct 2012 19:07:34 +0000

How do you make a SDCard for this VM? I want to use a small space of my HD as a virtual SDcard (is that possible)?

By: Chook

Chook — Wed, 25 Jul 2012 03:08:57 +0000

Price: 0.99 USD

By: Arshad

Arshad — Fri, 13 Jul 2012 18:21:08 +0000

Can I install Android above OS of VirtualBoxImage in VMware instead of installing in Oracle Virtual Box

By: G

Mon, 21 May 2012 20:16:24 +0000

Sound doesn’t work in Linux VMs right now.

By: Will

Will — Mon, 27 Feb 2012 21:30:58 +0000

The VM’s hosted by VirtualBoxImages are also free, but yes Android-X86 is a good resource. We mentioned it recently here when discussing running Android 4 ICS in a VM;

http://osxdaily.com/2012/02/23/android-4-ics-virtualbox/

By: GARBAGE

GARBAGE — Mon, 27 Feb 2012 21:03:34 +0000

go here for android downloads FOR FREE: http://www.android-x86.org/download

By: gaurav

gaurav — Mon, 21 Nov 2011 09:33:22 +0000

hey i installed android on virtual machine. but its wifi does not turn on. how do i use internet? i have wifi connection. pls help!!!

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Android Desktop Notifier informs you of SMS, phone calls, and more — Thu, 14 Oct 2010 11:33:38 +0000

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By: Android on the iPhone - OS X Daily

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By: Benjamin

Benjamin — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 14:15:45 +0000

that sounds really good. in fact the posibility of running a OS like this is kinda helpful to test it’s operability on machines with other VM trades (parallesl, VMWare)

By: Sebastian

Sebastian — Sun, 29 Aug 2010 01:30:34 +0000

I think its great. Had it running on my old notebook. Gives it a completely new dimension of speed. Im only waiting now until they make Android 2.2 running natively on the intel platform. Thats gonna happen any day now.
As I said. Its great to use on older hardware. Also my eee701 has a purpose again.

greetz

By: Enginerd

Enginerd — Sat, 28 Aug 2010 22:23:48 +0000

True, and my first reaction to this was “what’s the point?”. But a lot of software won’t run on the emulator, it’s trivial for a program to detect whether it’s on an emulator. A virtual machine would likely behave more like the real thing.

By: David Phillip Oster

David Phillip Oster — Sat, 28 Aug 2010 22:08:30 +0000

You can also download the development environment for free from http://developer.android.com and run an emulated Android device on Mac OS X, Windows, or linux.

By: Mike

Mike — Fri, 27 Aug 2010 20:25:58 +0000

Yup but I can’t figure out how to get my microphone to work in the VM. This is my big complain about virtualization, half the hardware never works!