{"id":564,"date":"2012-11-19T19:16:02","date_gmt":"2012-11-19T19:16:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/?p=564"},"modified":"2012-11-19T19:16:02","modified_gmt":"2012-11-19T19:16:02","slug":"android-vm-with-vmware","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/?p=564","title":{"rendered":"Android VM – with VMware"},"content":{"rendered":"

Now that I have several Android devices – having just taken delivery of an ‘inexpensive’ 7in tablet – I decided it would be interesting to run the OS in a VMware virtual machine..<\/p>\n

You can get a ‘VirtualBox’ Android 4 image at http:\/\/androvm.org\/blog\/download\/<\/a>\u00a0 and then convert it to a VMware VM, by opening the xxxx.ova<\/strong><\/em> file using VMware, and following the prompts to convert it.. \u00a0 You may find that the process ‘fails’ the first time, with a vague error message, but if you run it a second<\/em> time, it should be successful.. \u00a0 \u00a0 I used the ‘tablet\/phone’ version (androVM_vbox86tp<\/strong><\/span>…), as I wanted a tablet-sized screen, but some apps (such as Firefox) won’t install on the ‘tablet-only’ version, for some odd reason..<\/p>\n

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Android VM with VMware<\/p><\/div>\n

A couple of (minor) gotchas..\u00a0\u00a0 The keyboard layout seems to be US-only, despite the description being ‘UK’.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 This means the @<\/strong> symbol will be where the “<\/strong> symbol is, on a UK keyboard..\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 There is no obvious way to power off within Android (as you would usually use the power button on a phone or tablet) so just use the ‘power off’ icon (red square) at the top left of the VMware window..<\/p>\n

I will be writing more about my new Android 7in tablet, after I have spent more time using it..<\/p>\n

Robert Gadsdon.\u00a0 November 19th 2012.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Now that I have several Android devices – having just taken delivery of an ‘inexpensive’ 7in tablet – I decided it would be interesting to run the OS in a VMware virtual machine.. You can get a ‘VirtualBox’ Android 4 image at http:\/\/androvm.org\/blog\/download\/\u00a0 and then convert it to a VMware VM, by opening the xxxx.ova file using …<\/span> Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,6,11,25],"tags":[84,198,1175,398,399,402],"class_list":["post-564","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-android","category-crash-and-burn","category-hacks","category-vmware","tag-android-2","tag-import","tag-success","tag-virtual-machine","tag-virtualbox","tag-vmware-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/564","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=564"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/564\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}