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Let Android boot and soon you’ll see the Android desktop, VirtualBox will capture your mouse and keyboard (use left Command key on a Mac to escape) and you’ll be able to play around with Google’s mobile operating system.

You’ll see some command line stuff fly by which is expected since Android is running atop Linux (kind of like how Mac OS X runs on a BSD base and iOS runs on a Mac OS X base).

To launch Android, simply select the image from the sidebar of VirtualBox and then click on the “Start” button at the top of the window.

VirtualBox will now import the pre-made Android OS virtual machine image, you can allocate it however much RAM you want but a typical Android phone has somewhere between 128MB and 512MB, I chose 256MB of RAM for my image.

Locate your Android VM file and select it with VirtualBox.

Select “Use existing hard disk” and click on the folder icon to select the Android VM file.

Uncompress the Android VM image file (Mac users can open 7z files with Unarchiver).

Next you’ll want to download an Android Virtual Machine image, these are freely available for download here (these are specifically VirtualBox images).

First you’ll need to download and install VirtualBox do that from here for Mac, Windows, or Linux.

You’ll need to download a few things to get Android running atop your desktop OS, don’t worry it’s all free software:

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How to run Android OS in a virtual machine All of the download links are cross-platform compatible too. Oh and before you ask, this tutorial is designed for Mac users but the process is identical in Windows and Linux too, so if you’re at work or you don’t have a Mac handy, you can follow along just the same.

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