Android 5 Iso Download Virtualbox

Android lovers can use virtualization software like VirtualBox, VMware and other similar software to run Android OS on desktop or laptop PC. This guide shows the step by steps to install Android 5.1 Lollipop on Windows 10 PC by using Oracle VirtualBox. Why to install it on a PC? it is a good question. It is most suitable for testing purpose and developers. Instead of playing around with your working Android smart phone or tablet, you can install it on virtual environment and try the all experiments and development tests on it.

Add the Android P ISO to the Virtual Machine in order to Install Android P on VirtualBox. Select settings of the Created Virtual Machine and navigate to storage, select empty and on the right panel locate the Android P ISO. To install Android 7 Nougat, you’ll need some files during the installation, here are they: Download Android 7.0 Nougat ISO Image File. Download & Install VirtualBox 5.1. Now run VirtualBox and click on New, on the window describe the virtual machine and type like the shot and hit Next. Once the Virtual Machine is created, we need to add the Android P ISO in order to Install Android P on VirtualBox. To do that, Select settings > Storage, then select the empty drive. Now select the DVD icon and insert the Android P ISO.

Obviously you are not going to get the same performance and graphical experience on your Windows computer with Android like on real smartphone/tablet, but still it gives chance to play around with it in temporary location. Snapshot features on virtualization software will allow you to revert back the virtual machine state to any earlier state if something goes wrong with the guest OS which is Android 5.1 in this case. We have already published similar guide about KitKat 4.4 earlier here.

Check out these laptops which are under 200 US dollars that come with Google Chrome OS. The Android 5.1 Lollipop OS version which we are going to install is made for X86 PCs, it can work on 64bit computers too. It’s modified by few developers to support PC platform. You can download the previous and future Android X86 versions for PC support from there site here.

What You Need?

a) Oracle VirtualBox
b) Android 5.1 X86 ISO version (Download it from here)
c) A Windows 10 or 8.1 computer (that can be a laptop or desktop to run VirtualBox)

Steps to Install Android 5.1 Lollipop on Windows 10/8.1 with VirtualBox

1) Make sure you have downloaded the ISO file of Android x86 5.1

2) Create a new virtual machine. Select the Linux as OS and Other Linux 32-bit. No matter if you are running 64bit Windows OS, select 32-bit Linux version because we are going to install the X86 (32bit) version of Android.Select the memory size to minimum 2GB (2048MB). You can set more if you can allocate more RAM from your physical computer. You have to create a new disk (4) on the next screen.

3) Create a new disk from the next screen. It can be more than 8GB, I selected 12 GB disk space. If you are going to install more apps and games, then allocate more disk space.

4) Click next and complete the creation of Android 5.1 virtual machine on Windows OS platform.

Now we need to mount the downloaded Android 5.1 ISO to CD drive of virtual machine, so the new virtual machine can boot from ISO file and start the installation.

Go to settings of the Android 5.1 virtual machine and select Storage. Click on the CD/DVD drive (which would be empty for you), then click on the CD icon as shown (3) below and browse the ISO file from local disk. Browse and select the downloaded ISO file of Android 5.1 and load it. It would show as below once the ISO file is loaded properly.

5) Power on the virtual machine, it will boot from the ISO. Select the installation option as below.

6) We need to create a partition on the disk to continue the installation. Select ‘Create/Modify’ partition option (1) and select No to GPT partition option as below(2). GPT partition type is basically required for more than 2TB disks only, since our disk is very small for Android 5.1 Lollipop installation, we do not need to select GPT type here.

7) We need to create new primary partition. Since we are not going to split the partition, give the full available space to create the new partition.

Select Primary type and leave the entire disk space.

8.)The disk should be bootable, so it can boot the Lollipop Android 5.1 on Windows 10 VirtualBox. Select the disk, then move to ‘Bootable’ (2), press Enter. On the next screen, select and Enter ‘Write’. This will write and save the partition information on the virtual hard disk.

On the next screen, confirm to writing option. Even though it would say that it’s going to destroy the information on the disk, it’s fine at the moment since we do not have any data on the new virtual hard disk.

9) Once you come out from the partition creation black screen, select the disk you have created to start the installation. It will look like below.

10) Now time to format the disk. ext3 file format is fine for Android 5.1 to install it on Windows 10 PC. Select it and press Enter.

11) We need to install GRUB boot loader to boot the Android 5.1 virtual machine. Click Yes for that option.

EFI GRUB2 boot loader can be skipped, because I really do not know whether it’s required in this case.

12) Next screen is to start the actual installation. Click Yes and start the installation. It will copy some files and end soon.

Once it’s completed, you can run the Android 5.1 on Windows 10/8.1 directly or reboot the virtual machine.

13)You must unload the ISO file which we mounted before starting the installation at step 4. If you still have the ISO on the CD/DVD drive, the virtual machine will boot from the ISO and ask for installation again and again. Remove the ISO from CD/DVD drive and boot the virtual machine.

14) Android 5.1 VM will boot without any issues. To get the mouse control inside the VM, ‘Mouse Integration’ should be disabled as below. Like normal Android phone initial setup should be done to get the full fledged Android 5.1 OS on PC. Your physical computer must have Internet access to connect Google Play store and login with your Gmail account inside virtual machine.

You will be seeing the working Lollipop on VirtualBox. As said earlier, the performance may not be up to the mark, but still you can play around with it.

Hope this guide would be useful to install and setup Android 5.1 Lollipop on VirtualBox with Windows 10/8.1 PC.

For days I try to get Android 5 or higher running inside Virtualbox on Linux (here: Mint 18.1), without success. At best, I get past the boot menu (Grub), the system switches to graphics mode, and I see the pulsating 'Android': After a few seconds, disk access ceases, and the VM hangs with 100% CPU load.

I've searched the web up and down, and tried all the tricks I could find: increasing RAM to 2G, video memory to 128M, CPU count to 2. Switching the VM from 'Linux (other)' to 'BSD', trying 64bit and 32bit images (the 64bit images even get stuck at a black screen before the pulsating 'Android' letters), the latter in 64bit and 32bit VMs, from the Android-x86 project via RemixOS to Phoenix, Android 5.1 to 7 – nothing gives.

Run Android In Virtualbox

Where's the trick?

Please don't point me to those numerous guides based on Virtualbox running on Windows. I've followed a bunch of them without luck. Nor do I want to use QEMU for that (draws in too many dependencies I don't want to install), or Genymotion etc (where I'd have to register). I'm interested in help from those who've got it running fine in Virtualbox on Linux.

I've also seen similar questions here and followed the advice from their answers:

Android x86 Marshmallow not booting on Virtualbox and VMware Workstation
adding vga=834 nomodeset xforcevesa to the kernel options just caused the hang happen even earlier. The other advices I already had followed. The .vdi taken from OSBoxes had the same issues.
other questions are either not for Virtualbox, or concerning pre-Lolliop. As the linked question above shows, the problem seems also to be present with VMWare.

How did you get it to run?

Note in between: I might soon be able to self-answer, but first need to verify and, if possible, improve: I meanwhile managed to fully boot an ISO with RemixOS, using 'FreeBSD 64bit' for that 32bit image. The boot just took AGES to complete (about 15min before the pulsing 'RemixOS' text got replaced by the welcome screen). It might be that's the first boot only, and after installing it to 'disk' and having that running once, the next boot is faster. As soon as I find time, I'll dig deeper – and then will remove this paragraph and post an answer instead.

Izzy

Virtualbox Android X86

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I was able to install Android-x86 on my Debian 9 box with no real problem. Following are my system details, the articles I followed, commands I used and lastly the settings info of the VM itself.

System:

Chassis: desktop
Desktop Environment: Gnome 3.22.2
Operating System: Debian GNU/Linux 9.1 (stretch)
Kernel: Linux 4.9.0-3-amd64
Architecture: x86-64
Processor: Intel Core i5-4570S CPU @ 2.90GHz × 4
Processor supports HW virtualization: yes
Processor supports PAE: yes
Processor supports long mode: yes
Processor supports nested paging: yes
Memory: 15.4 GiB Graphics: Intel® Haswell Desktop
Disk: 1.1 TB

First I installed VirtualBox 5.1:

In nano I typed:

Then to save and exit nano editor:

Then to get keys, update repos and install VB.

Android In Virtualbox

Then I set about installing Android-x86:

First I downloaded Android-x86 6.0-r3 (the third stable release of marshmallow-x86) from here. Then I followed this article: 'How to Install Android in VirtualBox'by Cameron Summerson, dated June 29th, 2017. The only snag I ran into was for mouse support.

The suggestion here didn't work for me but it might work for someone else.

So then I tried the discussion here which instructed to turn off VM which in my case is 'Android' and try the command: