Comments on: How to Install Android OS to Run Favourite Games and Applications in Linux

By: Ravindra

Ravindra — Wed, 03 Feb 2021 17:27:33 +0000

Why use VDI (virtual disk image) instead of VHD (virtual hard disk)?

How do I create more than one partition for the Android machine?

Do all partitions need to be in EXT4 format?

Thank you.

By: Abdel Bolaños Martínez

Abdel Bolaños Martínez — Sun, 18 Oct 2020 00:06:17 +0000

There is a big missing part in your article about install apps and games from the Google store. In order to do that we need to install an arm bridge called ‘houdini‘ and I am surprised how little people talk about that.

Android x86 brings a bash script in /system/bin/enable_nativebridge that helps you to set up Houdini. In my case, I had to download the houdini.sfs manually from http://dl.android-x86.org/houdini.php?v=9_y, (9_y) changes depending on the Android version and architecture, and place it in where the script was failing to find Houdini, and later activate the setting to enable arm.

By: Ravi Saive

Ravi Saive — Mon, 31 Aug 2020 05:16:07 +0000

In reply to Rakesh.

@Rakesh,

Are you installing Android on VirtualBox? if yes, please enable “VBoxVGA” under Settings –> Display –> Graphic Controller.

By: Rakesh

Rakesh — Sun, 30 Aug 2020 11:57:02 +0000

Thanks for Article, but some things are going wrong. I followed all steps, mentioned above, but at the time of booting from the Hard disk.

I am getting messages like this.

Progress ; Detecting Android-86.... found at /dev/sda1
Console:/ # ..

What command I should write after:

Console:/ # ..

so that it boots finally from hard disk

any suggestion ? … thanks in advance

By: Gaurav Gandhhi

Gaurav Gandhhi — Sat, 29 Aug 2020 03:38:46 +0000

You know right, that not all games support x8 platform. Not the best solution in regards to gaming, one should try emulators like Anbox, Shashlik, Genymotion, etc. I prefer genymotion over others as I have been using for 3+ years and looks most stable to me.