
Select “Quit” option to exit partition manager. Hit “Write” option and then type “yes” to confirm.

Once done, you will see newly created file system in partition manager, as shown in the screenshot below: You don’t have to specify anything in prompts. Select “New” and then continue to hit the key for next four prompts. Ignore warning on the next screen, just press any key to continue. Select the “Installation” entry and wait for the partitioning screen to come up.Ĭhoose “Create/Modify partitions”, and then GPT to be “Yes”. If you have followed instructions correctly upto here, you should see a new window popup: You have to make sure that they match names of virtual hard disk and downloaded Android-x86 iso image. device virtio-mouse-pci -device virtio-keyboard-pci \ Most modern CPUs have support for KVM but you can check its presence by running command below: You also need to have a Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM) compatible CPU on your system. QEMU in older versions of Ubuntu lacks VirGL support. Using a combination of Android-x86, QEMU and VirGL technologies, we will boot and install complete Android OS in a virtual machine.Ī compatibility note: This guide has been tested with Ubuntu 19.04 and instructions below will work for Ubuntu 19.04 or newer versions. VirGL is an OpenGL renderer added to recent QEMU builds, it allows you to create a virtual 3D capable graphics card inside QEMU virtual machine.

Qemu is a hardware virtualization solution for Linux that enables emulation of an entire OS installed on a virtual disk. With new features, numerous compatibility patches and bug fixes over Android Open Source Project, Android-x86 is the most robust solution currently available today for x86 desktop PCs.This article describes how to install Android-x86 in QEMU with full hardware acceleration on Ubuntu, allowing you to play 3D games and run major Android apps. Android-x86 is a free and open source project that aims to provide Android images for x86 systems.
