

Click finish again, and the virtual machine will be created.Then finish the dialog, and a virtual hard disk will be created. Set the size of the virtual hard disk to 2 GB (that is more than sufficient for the emulator). When it prompts you for the hard disk storage type choose “ Fixed-size storage“. In the virtual hard disk screen, make sure ” Boot Hard Disk” is checked and that ” Create new hard disk” is selected.


Let’s skip the details and get started, as this is a fairly long tutorial. So far Android 圆4 only supports up to Android 2.2 Froyo, but they are currently working on porting over Android 2.3 Gingerbread. The basic premise is to host the Android OS on VirtualBox. Thankfully there is a solution by the guys at Android x86. The Android SDK Emulator can be quite slow on some systems, which makes Android app debugging especially painful for those who aren’t in possession of a physical device to test their Android apps on.
