How to run Android-x86 4.2 ISO on VM VirtualBox?

I installed Oracle VirtualBox on Win7, then I downloaded android-x86-4.2-20121225.iso from Android-x86 - Porting Android to x86. After I installed Android x86-4.2 on VirtualBox from ISO and creating fake SD Card for it, I tried to run it, but when I started it I saw these lines in console:

Detecting Android-x86... found at /dev/sda1

ANDROID root@x86:/ #

And no thing else. I tried that some times but result is the same. How I can solve this problem?

Update: Even I waited more than 20 minutes and nothing happen!

hasanghaforian

Posted 2013-04-25T06:21:56.737

Reputation: 801

Answers

You just need to change the value of "androidboot.hardware" parameter in the grub command from "Android-x86" to "x86". You can do this by pressing "Tab" in the boot menu or by editing "isolinux.cfg" file on the installation ISO Image.

Hope this works for you.

Mahmoud Hasheesh

Posted 2013-04-25T06:21:56.737

Reputation: 76

Thank you,that works for me!Although it takes some times. – hasanghaforian – 2013-04-25T19:21:22.870

The real answer appears 9 months ago on youtube:

Close VM
In the system tab under settings for the Android machine uncheck "hardware clock in UTC time"
In the display tab set graphics controller to "vboxvga" and enable 3D hardware acceleration

The "Android" screen should appears under one minute after the message ANDROID root@x86:/ # where you get stuck

Itharius

Posted 2013-04-25T06:21:56.737

Reputation: 11

I have an HP430 Laptop with Windows 7. I had the same problem. But I figured out the solution:

While booting the computer with Windows 7 I entered the BIOS menu. There was a option to optimize the PC for virtualization. I selected it. After that every thing ran smoothly.

Later I noticed that in VirtualBox, in system settings, the acceleration type was VT-x AMD, Nested Paging, PAE/NX. This was different before optimization.

guest1

Posted 2013-04-25T06:21:56.737

Reputation: 11

You have to wait more. I think it will start, but you have just wait enough.

Risto Salminen

Posted 2013-04-25T06:21:56.737

Reputation: 167

2It's more likely that there are no graphics drivers in the recent ISO image. Official VirtualBox support is non-existant since ICS. – Stefan Seidel – 2013-04-25T08:21:27.920

@RistoSalminen I wait more than 20 minuets and no thing happen! – hasanghaforian – 2013-04-25T09:27:35.273

Oh, that's sad. Then you have more serious/hard problem. – Risto Salminen – 2013-04-25T17:25:24.320