Which means that you’ve installed your first Android vm. Which is pretty self explanatory.Ĥ.18 Once the configuration is Finished, you should see the following screen, The only thing for you left to do is, the configuration. This will create the partition table, which make sure that you can use the new partition for the installation of Android 8.1.Ĥ.9 After that select “Quite” and you will return to the installation screen of android, with a partition available called sda1Ĥ.10 Select sda1 and press enter for the installation to start.Ĥ.15 Once it is finished, you can choose to reboot the machine or run Android.Ĥ.16 If you’ve gave it enough resources, and you configured it properly it should give you The Famous Android Screen.Ĥ.17 Once it is past that you should see the first welcome screen. After that press the arrow keys until you’ve selected the “Write” tab. First you want to make it bootable, select “Bootable” and under the head “Flags” it should show “Boot”. I’ve selected it all and pressed enter.Ĥ.7 Then you have to configure your partition. This tend to have some problems when installing the vm.Ĥ.4 Lets create a new partition by selecting “New”.Ĥ.6 Select the size that you want for the new partition. Select “Create/Modify Partions” and press enter.Ĥ.3 Select no for the use of GPT. So we’re going to create a new partition. Installing and configuring the Android VM.Ĥ.1 When you boot up the machine, you will see the following Screen.Ĥ.2 We’ve given the vm 20GB of disk space (Thin), but currently, this amount of space has not been assigned. The ISO is already selected because we selected to deploy from ISO, and the internet is automatically being shared with the VM trough NAT. I increased it to 1gb as well, this way I know it going to be much faster during the bootup and it will go past the Android screen, which a lot of people tend to get stuck in. Turn on 3D-Acceleration, and increase the Shared Graphics Memory. After that, click “Show All” and you go back to the previous screen.ģ.2 Click on Display and you will see the following Screen. You can also change the amount of processors, but I wouldn’t go above 2. Customize Virtual Hardware SettingsĪfter that the vm is listed into your machine library, and it will prompt this screen if you have chosen, customize settings.ģ.1 Change to amount of memory. Best to do it into one go.Ģ.6 It will ask where you want to store machine, and what kind of name you want to give it. If you don’t, it will boot up the machine with the current settings and you have to change it afterwards. So instead of Finish, you best click “Customize Settings”. You can also increase the amount of processors, but that is less necessary. So we are going to Change the amount of Memory and turn on 3D Acceleration for your screen. We need to ramp it up with a little bit more specs, otherwise it won’t be able to bootup. After that select “Continue”.Ģ.4 Select “Legacy BIOS” and click Continue.Ģ.5 This screen will show you the current settings for this virtual machine. the “Create a custom virtual Machine” option, because this way you are more certain that you’ve selected the proper Virtual Hardware. You will see that after you’ve selected the ISO, it will detect the type of Virtual Hardware it is going to need to deploy the machine. Open up VMware Fusion / Workstation and create a new VMĢ.3 Load the ISO by clicking the “Use Another disc or disc image…”. There you can find all the latest ISO’s that are available.

So one site that I can definitely recommend is. There are a few ways how you can deploy the OS, but my favorite way is by just simple installing it on a VM with virtualized hardware based on FreeBSD. Btw, if video’s are more your thing, check out the youtube video that I made. So I decided to virtualize the Android with VMware Fusion for mac, also known as Workstation on Windows. I didn’t had any android phone, and some apps that I actually needed, where not available on any other OS.

So it started when I had to bring my phone back for repairs. 5) Posts that can be answered by reading the sidebar/Getting Started post may be locked and/or removed.Tested on macOS High Sierra & VMware Fusion 10.1.2 More details about this here! 4) Please flair your posts. 3) Posts about Pokemon games on DS will be removed. 2) Don't post PlayStation (PSX) tutorial videos unless they follow the steps on the wiki exactly. User Guideġ) Asking/showing where to find games (ROMs) and BIOS files is not allowed.

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