If you do, click ‘Okay’ and close out of the window. When you return back to the Storage window, you should see the Android ISO file now listed. Once you’ve found it, click on it, then click on ‘Open’ Locate and select image file Navigate to the location where you downloaded you Android ISO file. Here we can select ‘Choose a disk file…’ Selecting the image file

Click on the disc icon, then under ‘Attributes’ click on the other disc icon. Next, under ‘Storage’ looking for ‘Storage Devices’ and the empty disc icon. Then below under ‘Graphics Controller’, select VBoxSVGA in the drop-down menu. Increase the number to the maximum amount available (within the green zone). The first tab ‘Screen’ has a scale for video memory. ‘Display’ is the next option we want to select. In the next tab, ‘Acceleration’, select ‘KVM’ in the Paravirtualization Interface drop-down list.

We will increase the number of available processors to 2. In the Settings window, select ‘System’ from the list on the left, and then the ‘Processor’ tab in the middle. To make the changes, select the newly created virtual drive on the left, then select ‘Settings’ icons at the top. File location and size Modifying Android OS virtual diskīefore you can run Android in VirtualBox, we need to make a few changes to ensure it runs cleanly. Once you’re settled on a size, click ‘Create’ and we have finished the first step. If you plan to install a lot of applications for games, you may want to give even more space. Under ‘File location and size’ we have left the folder path as default but increased the size for the virtual hard disk to 10GB.

Hard disk file typeĬreate Virtual Hard Disk will be Dynamically allocated. Hard disk file type will be VDI (VirtualBox Disk Image). Hard disk will be ‘Create a virtual hard disk now’ Virtual hard disk The next few steps will be default settings.

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