Android on vmware

Yippee!! I deployed my virtual machine with android.

It might sound "What is there in it?" But this is my first time I tried it and it was successful. I would like to summarize it here for all those first-handers wondering how to do the same.

1. The first and foremost thing needed to deploy you need the iso. It is mostly observed that android-x86-4.0-RC2-eeepc.iso is well suited for vmware and 4.2 is well suited for virtualbox. The iso can be downloaded from
                               http://www.android-x86.org/download

In this post I will be covering in detail installation in vmware (and hence 4.0). The iso is a 179Mb file. 

2. Once the iso is downloaded, the vm can be created. Start vmware and perform the following. 

a) 

b) Select Typical configuration, which is enabled by default. 

c) Choose installer Disc image file and give path of iso. 

d) Give the name of the virtual machine and path. 

e) Give the Maximum disk size. 

f) In the next window, unselect "Power on this virtual machine after creation"

And click finish. The vm will be created. 

g) once this is done, go back to the path that was set in point (d). There will be virtual machine configuration file (vmx file)

Open this file with notead. 

There will be an entity, ethernet0.virtualDev = "e1000"

Change this to ethernet0.virtualDev = "vlance"

save this file. 

h) Go back to vm and power it on.

i) Select Install android-x86 to hard disk

j) Partition related menu will appear. Select create/Modify partitions option. 

k) This will open a cfdisk utility

Select New

Then select Primary in the next set of options. Then input the size. Then select the bootable flag. 

Then select "write"

Select "Quit"to come back to ""Choose partition"window as shown in point (j). The only difference will now be that the partition you added will now be available in that window. 

l) Format the partition with ext3 file system. 

There will be questions like "Do you want to format?"etc. Please select yes. 

For setting read/write permission, select yes. 

m) After this, select reboot in below screen. 

This finishes deployment. 

But for usage, some more customization are to be done, which are listed below. 

a) The following screen will appear after deployment. 

Click on "Start"

b) Press "Next"for the date and time setup. 

c) Make sure you do not sign in to google account as yet.

d) Give a name to the owner of the tablet and click next

e) Agree to the google terms and services and click next

f) Click finish

Your vm is up and ready with android. 

Network Setup:

1. Open terminal emulator

2. Do su and give root access to terminal emulator.

3. Open /etc/init.sh file and append the following line

             setprop net.dns1 8.8.8.8

4. Reboot the machine.  

Now your android on VM is set and you can even access web pages. 

Hope this was useful. 

Thanks, 

Gomathi