Comments on: How To Run Android on Your Home PC with Virtualbox

By: Jens Jakob Teislev

Jens Jakob Teislev — Sat, 30 Oct 2010 17:15:00 +0000

hmm wasn’t able to use th mouse to do input.. is there something that needs to be switch on?

EDIT:: Forget what I said! Machine -> Enable mouse integration did the trick :)

By: will

will — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 22:48:32 +0000

Thanks — It all came up with a minimum of fuss. One wrinkle for me, since I have virtualbox v3.1.2 … I needed to add a CD/DVD to the primary controller and point that at the ISO image.

So now I have the nice shiny Android ‘phone top’ showing. Once question. How to I give it input? Is there a keyboard option or mouse/touch screen simulator?

Great tutorial.

By: will

will — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 22:48:00 +0000

Thanks — It all came up with a minimum of fuss. One wrinkle for me, since I have virtualbox v3.1.2 … I needed to add a CD/DVD to the primary controller and point that at the ISO image.

So now I have the nice shiny Android ‘phone top’ showing. Once question. How to I give it input? Is there a keyboard option or mouse/touch screen simulator?

Great tutorial.

By: twitter

twitter — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 05:14:25 +0000

Thanks again. It worked locally, under gnome. For some reason, it would not capture the mouse under E16. The browser worked and maps worked, but street view and youtube did not work. Trying now as a different user in a gnome session, my poor poor 800 MHz PIII … Nope, it did not like that. I’ll have to learn the RDP way some time.

By: twitter

twitter — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 05:14:00 +0000

By: twitter

twitter — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 04:09:32 +0000

Thanks, that just about did it. On Lenny, the options needed — instead of – and there were no capital letters:

vboxmanage storageattach liveandroid_0.2.xml –storagectl “IDE Controller” –port 0 –device 1 –type dvddrive –medium /home/my_user/android/liveandroidv0.3.iso

This bombed the existing VM, which is OK because it did not work to begin with, but it told virtual box that I had a DVDimage that the next VM could use to boot.

Running remotely through OpenSSH did not work for me. It booted but would not capture my keys or otherwise respond. It looked good and it might work locally with a little more work.

By: twitter

twitter — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 04:09:00 +0000

Thanks, that just about did it. On Lenny, the options needed — instead of – and there were no capital letters:

vboxmanage storageattach liveandroid_0.2.xml –storagectl “IDE Controller” –port 0 –device 1 –type dvddrive –medium /home/my_user/android/liveandroidv0.3.iso

This bombed the existing VM, which is OK because it did not work to begin with, but it told virtual box that I had a DVDimage that the next VM could use to boot.

Running remotely through OpenSSH did not work for me. It booted but would not capture my keys or otherwise respond. It looked good and it might work locally with a little more work.

By: Jonas

Jonas — Sun, 03 Jan 2010 10:04:06 +0000

I have no system without a CDROM so no guarantees, but you may want to try this:

First, create the VM as outlined except the CD part. Then do this in a shell:

VBoxManage storageattach Android –storagectl “IDE Controller” –port 0 –device 1 –type dvddrive –medium full-path-to-iso

The “Android” part is the name of the VM, and depending on your hardware you may need to change what’s in quotation-marks. I tried this in VirtualBox 3.1.0 (OSE, r25105), so may not be applicable to earlier versions.

By: Jonas

Jonas — Sun, 03 Jan 2010 10:04:00 +0000

I have no system without a CDROM so no guarantees, but you may want to try this:

First, create the VM as outlined except the CD part. Then do this in a shell:

VBoxManage storageattach Android –storagectl “IDE Controller” –port 0 –device 1 –type dvddrive –medium full-path-to-iso

By: Jonas

Jonas — Sun, 03 Jan 2010 10:04:00 +0000

I have no system without a CDROM so no guarantees, but you may want to try this:

First, create the VM as outlined except the CD part. Then do this in a shell:

VBoxManage storageattach Android –storagectl “IDE Controller” –port 0 –device 1 –type dvddrive –medium full-path-to-iso

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By: Joshua Price

Joshua Price — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 18:11:09 +0000

All my systems have CDROMs, so I haven’t tested this, but you may want to use the “mkdev” command instead of just touching a file. “mkdev cdrom” may be worth a shot.

This page may help get you started: http://docsrv.sco.com:507/en/man/html.ADM/mkdev.ADM.html

By: Joshua Price

Joshua Price — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 18:11:00 +0000

All my systems have CDROMs, so I haven’t tested this, but you may want to use the “mkdev” command instead of just touching a file. “mkdev cdrom” may be worth a shot.

This page may help get you started: http://docsrv.sco.com:507/en/man/html.ADM/mkdev.ADM.html

By: twitter

twitter — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 15:53:04 +0000

Hmmm, none of my target systems have a CDROM. How do you tell Virtual Box to use an iso when there’s no CDROM button? I googled “vituralbox without cdrom” and variations of that but did not find an answer. I tried to create a /dev/cdrom with touch but virtual box was not fooled or did not update the settings. Is there a way around this other than having a CDROM?

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twitter — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 15:53:00 +0000

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