Virtual. Box. How. To Android x. 86 Porting Android to x. Introduction. The following are instructions on how to run Android x. Virtual. Box. Note For optimal performance, make sure you have enabled either VT x or AMD V in your host operating systems BIOS. Android x. 86 versions tested against Virtualbox versions. Date Tested. Virtualbox. Wikigain.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/Installing-VirtualBox-Guest-Additions-Kali-Linux.jpg?resize=650%2C377' alt='How To Install Virtualbox Additions Linux' title='How To Install Virtualbox Additions Linux' />For some reason, Virtualbox isnt included in the Debian 9 repository. This tutorial shows how to install VirtualBox on Debian 9 Stretch. RA-Oracle_Linux_6_64bit-Configure_OS-install_guest_additions.png/720px-RA-Oracle_Linux_6_64bit-Configure_OS-install_guest_additions.png' alt='How To Install Virtualbox Additions Linux' title='How To Install Virtualbox Additions Linux' />Host OSAndroid x. Result 2. 2. 4. Windows XP Good Fedora 1. Good. Nov. 2 2. 01. How To Install Virtualbox Additions Linux' title='How To Install Virtualbox Additions Linux' />Windows 1. Good. Download an ISO of Android x. Caution If you are using Android x. Android app host. Download a 3. 2 bit distribution instead. If you have not already created a Virtual. Box virtual machine for Android x. Click the New button, and name your new virtual machine however you like. Set Type to Linux, and Verison to Linux 2. If you are running Ubuntu, Xubuntu or Kubuntu inside virtualbox then install virtualbox guest additions to enable features like shared folders, mouse pointer. A user asked how to install BackTrack in VirtualBox. Since BackTrack is no longer supported and since Kali Linux is a rewrite of BackTrack I opted for Kali. VirtualBox is a generalpurpose full virtualizer for x86 hardware, targeted at server, desktop and embedded use. For a thorough introduction to virtualization and. University Of Washington Software Testing Certificate. Introduction. The following are instructions on how to run Androidx86 inside VirtualBox. Note For optimal performance, make sure you have enabled either VTx or AMD. For those running a guest Linux Operating System if you downloaded a prebuilt VirtualBox image, its likely you already have the Guest Additions installed. Note that you should choose the appropriate bit type for the version of Android x. Specify how much RAM will be allocated to your virtual machine when you run it. Android doesnt specify a bare minimum requirement for memory, just keep in mind what apps you plan on running. GB 2. 04. 8MB is a good place to start, and you can change this later if you need to. Create a new Hard disk image which will act as your machines storage. The recommended starting size of 8. GB is enough. Click through the rest of the options for creating your Hard disk. Your virtual machine has now been created. It still needs to be initially installed at this point. Tested on Virtual. Box 6. 4 bit for Windows, version 5. Android x. 86 version 6. Select your machine, then click the Settings button and refer to the below recommended configuration to make sure your settings match. SystemOptional Processors may be set above 1 if you have more than one virtual processor in your host system. It is uncertain whether or not this has any affect on Android x. DisplayOptional Video Memory may be increased beyond the minimum selected automatically. Again, the affects of this are unknown. DisplayOptional Enable 3. D Acceleration may be checked. The Linux Guest Additions may need to be installed to get any benefit from this. Storage Find the first Empty item this should have an icon of a CD. In the Attributes, click on the CD icon with a small down arrow, and pick Choose Optical Virtual Disk File. Specify the Android x. ISO that you downloaded. AudioIntel HD Audio seems to be natively supported in Android x. Network By default, your installation of Android x. If you do not want this, uncheck Enable Network Adapter under the Adapter 1 tab. Install. Click the green Start arrow to power on your virtual machine. Youll be presented with a list of options. Use the arrow keys to pick which one you want, then press Enter once the one you want is selected. If you dont want to install Android x. Live CD options except for Debug mode. Pick the Installation option if you want your system to be installed to the virtual hard drive. If you want to use higher resolution, you can edit the boot option by pressing TAB, change vga7. Enter. You can also use vgaask to see all available modes. But please note Android will only work under 1. When you are prompted to Choose a partition, youll want to CreateModify partitions. Do not use GPT This will cause the GRUB installation to fail later. You may partition your disk however you see fit. If you just want a simple installation, create one partition taking up the entire disk and format it as ext. Continue through the installation. You should install GRUB when it prompts you do so. You may also leave system as read and write when prompted. Once the installation is complete, reboot your virtual machine and remove the ISO from the virtual CD drive. Once Android x. 86 has loaded, you can perform the Android setup and begin using your machine. When booting Android x. On the boot menu, select an entry you would like to boot from, press TAB, then add the following as it suits your needs DATAsda. SDCARDsda. 2Press Enter to boot. These options specify user data your setting, your uploaded applications,. If you build the ISO from source, you can add these options to bootablenewinstallerbootisolinuxisolinux. Here is a note from David when using fdisk Create a new virtual machine with a hard disk. Launch the Live ISO in Debug mode I used android x. Repeat 3, but call it partition 2, and use the remaining cylinders. L DATA devsda. 1mke. L SDCARD devsda. Reboot reboot fAt the boot menu, choose VESA, then hit TAB and type so that the end of the line reads DATAsda. SDCARDsda. 2. Only need for the generic target images, for VM target images, this is not neededAfter booting and of course disabling mouse integration via the machine menu, the SD card is read as unformatted, but you can format it by going to Settings SD card phone settings Format SD Card, then Mount SD card. The SD card should now workNote for the step  7, if you want to format to vfat only, then you can do newfsmsdos devsda. Also remember the partition type has to be fat. By using vfat, the step 1. Dev. Tools application has a Media. Scanner which  reindexes your SD card for cases where you manually copied media over. This ensures that you see new images andor music in the apps without having to reboot. If you downloaded it from within android, the application asks the relevant service to index new files. Playing music. This section describes two ways to upload music files into Android running on a vbox so you can play them by the Music app. Of course, you can save the files to the virtual disk mounted at sdcard, as described above. Upload files by adb. Adb is Android Debug Bridge, a tool to debug Android system. If you compile from source, it is located in outhostlinux x. Otherwise you can get it from Android SDK. Suppose the network of your vbox is OK, you can upload a file from your host by ADBHOSTlt ip of vbox outhostlinux x. You need to know the ip of your vbox. You can get it by Alt F1 and netcfg. You may also need to reboot Android to see the uploaded files. Of course in this way you have to mount sdcard to a virtual disk partion. For complex network settings of the Virtual. Box VM, you should refer to Debug Howto on how to connect adb to the VM. Upload files by wget. You can also upload files by wget in the debug mode. In the debug mode shell, before entering Android, cd androidsdcard netcfg eth. Then type exit to enter Android. Easy Ways to Install Ubuntu on Virtual. Box with Pictures1. Select your virtual machine. Then click the Start button. Ubuntu Virtual machine will start in a separate window. Machine will boot from selected ISO and you will see language option. Choose your preferred language and press Enter. In next window you will see Install Options. You can choose to try ubuntu without installing, you can choose install ubuntu option, you can also check for disk and memory for defects and problems and you can also choose to boot from existing hard disk. Choose to INSTALL ubuntu option here. Once ubuntu has loaded, Choose your language and Click Continue. On next screen, ubuntu will give you a checklist and you will be asked if you need to update during install. Choose your required option and click Continue. Next option will ask you if you want to delete all data and install or you can also choose or create your own partitions from option Something Else. Select your time zone from the map, then click Continue. Click Continue to keep the default keyboard layout or choose your desired one. Type your username in the first text box. This will automatically fill in the login name and computer name. Type your password and confirm your password and click Continue. Ubuntu will begin the installation now. Once installation is complete, click Restart Now to finish installation. Machine will restart and Installed Ubuntu will load from hard disk, provide password to username and login to main window of ubuntu.