#Vmware workstation for android how to#
#Vmware workstation for android install#

Select the Run Android-x86 to start the OS. This completes the installation of android. if you want to dedicate less space you can do so in the next step.

Next choose a space to create the user data image disk. Now the installation starts and will take around 5 minutes to complete.

#Vmware workstation for android install#

It requires you to install a boot loader as there is no default one. Now select ext3 or nay partition you require to run the android OS. Next you will have to select WriteВ which will write the changes to disk. Noe select primary to create a primary partition. Now once you see the free space, create a new partition by selecting the New option. The next couple of steps is for creating a partition to install android. You can either run a LiveCD version of android or run the installation. Now the Android ISO will load and the boot menu will appear. Click Next.ДЄnd as a last step, review all the settings and Click Finish. You can either keep a single disk file or split them. I chose NAT here as I need the machine to replicate the hostвЂ™s IP settings. I have selected 512 MB like shown in the below screenshot. You can select the value depending on your requirement. Since this is a test machine i selected 1 processor. Browse and select a specific folder if needed or just leave the default value. Click Next.Д«rowse to and select the android ISO and Click Next. Launch the Workstation software and click on new Virtual machine. We can continue with creating a virtual machine for running Android.Д«elow are the steps to create a VM. Once the initial setup is done (Which can be found on many blogs). So at first, VMware workstation has to be downloaded from here The post is going to be a detailed one, so it will help even someone who is new to VMware technology, to be able to get this up and running in less than half an hour or so.

#Vmware workstation for android how to#

In this post I will be showing How To Run Android Lollipop on VMware Workstation. The link for that post can be found here. In one of my previous posts I had shown how to run Android Kitkat on VMware workstation. Thanks to Android-x86 community for releasing the ISO of Android which can be used by developers to run the Android OS on any system, even inside a virtual machine and test/develop it. This evolution puts more pressure on developers to dynamically adapt to the situation and bring in more innovation into the app development space. In less than 10 years, smartphones have gone from a luxury to necessity. Everyone has a smartphone and itвЂ™s getting harder to live without one. The smartphone industry is evolving at a higher rate than ever.