samedi 15 août 2015

Convert an Android system.img to run in a virtual machine?



This question is very specifically about virtualising the operating system from a system.img file (designed to be flashed to a device) in software like VMWare or VirtualBox. It is not about running Android in a virtual machine in a generic sense.

Google doesn't give me anything for this topic, so before I type out what doesn't work I'm going to leave the thread open and see what advice we can assemble. I do have a specific ROM in mind, but this would be vastly more useful for the world as a whole if the solution was generic. Even if it's very complicated. I imagine it is complicated because there's no installer and no driver pack for VMWare or VirtualBox. I would prefer a solution that uses one of these, even if performance isn't wonderful.

Notes: We're talking about virtualisation, so the ROM is of course for an x86 device, but I do not have the device yet to flash this ROM to. So solutions can't involve flashing to the real device in order to get the filesystem.



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