After that you will see the partition at the top of your screen, selected by default. Once you`ve coped with this option, highlight Quit and hit Enter. Now select Bootable and move to Write option. Hit Enter one more time to set up the full space for the partition.

Here you will be asked about the size of the needed partition. Choose New and press Enter to set up a new partition at the free space. To create a partition for Android installation, choose Create-Modify partitions. The installation will be launched automatically. Now, navigate to Installation / Install Android-x86 to Harddisk and hit Enter. After that you will see the screen as follows: Start your VM and choose the needed ISO file as a virtual disk image in Devices Below you can find a detailed manual on how to install Android on VirtualBox with plenty of detailed screenshots. You can easily setup different operating systems on your host OS using the app`s exceptionally useful functionality.

I suspect that it is not the memory size but something else.VirtualBox is a world known tool for virtualization. I've tried changing the assigned memory size in the settings of the virtual machine to 2GB and then to 4GB, but starting Android still gets stuck at the same place in both cases.

I was wondering what the reason is and what I can do to solve the problem? Thanks. I guess Android getting stuck is not because of a shortage of RAM. When I boot up the Android VM, the screen shows some information about booting Android, but eventually is stuck with a blank screen with a cursor on the top left corner, and at the same time Lubuntu has slightly changed free RAM as below $ free -h

Total used free shared buff/cache available On Lubuntu currently free shows this: $ free -h In particular, I have assigned 1GB RAM to Android. I have installed Android 7.1 on VirtualBox 5.2 on Lubuntu 18.04 on Thinkpad T400 following this tutorial.

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