I have an older development release linked later in this post that was built specifically for VirtualBox, which is what this post was originally written about. First of AllĪpparently, the official Release version of Android 4.0 from should work completely out-of-the-box in VirtualBox: android-4.0-r1.

There are some people who have made pre-installed VirtualBox images, but one problem you may run into going that route is that the Android serial number will match everybody else who's using the same image as you, since Android generates this number on its first boot. This is how to install Android 4.0 (Ice Cream Sandwich) in VirtualBox, in a 'do it yourself' way (installing from an ISO image).

This information is a little hard to find on the Internet. Google WiFi routers because my primary Android phone was de-googled and could not Last image I did install (around 2019) had Gapps and I used this VM to manage my I haven't played with Android-x86 in some years now, the Sometimes they include Gapps out of the box, sometimes not, google around if theyĭon't and you need them. Version of Android from almost a decade ago, the basic steps still apply Ī still produces Android x86 imagesįor modern versions of Android and they still install the same. Update (Oct 2021): while this blog post is obviously VERY old now, describing a

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