Almost everyone must have heard today about Google's Android operating system are well known, although it provides interesting features as far as the level of integration with various Google services is concerned, still less popular than other similar operating systems, like Symbian or Windows Mobile. However, its potential is far more impressive, considering the fact that it can easily run on x86 systems.
For Android OS running on your computer, you can choose two different methods: a very easy (use a CD boot Live CD, which means that you must burn the image file to CD Android OS) and a little more difficult (to use a virtual machine that runs on your computer, which, however, far more interesting, because it does not involve a reboot, so no need to bother using the CD).
And below are the details of the methods mentioned above:
Method 1: Burn Live CDs
Step 1 - Download the two parts of the Live CD. ISO here Part 1, Part 2
Step 2 - Combine the two segments into one using a special application (author recommends HJSplit to combine image files).
Step 3 - Burn the iso file to a blank CD using your favorite disc burner (I use Nero 6 "Burn image files to Disc").
Step 4 - Reboot the computer (make sure that the CD-ROM is placed in the boot HDD in the boot device list).
Step 5 - Wait a minute to load (Live CD splash screen Android will probably take a while) and then voila! You've got Google's Android operating system running without any problems on your computer.
Method 2: Running Android OS on a virtual machine on your computer
While this second method is a bit more difficult than the first, it is also far more profitable, because it will allow you to run other applications at the same time with the Android.
The first thing you should do is install an application virtual machine, if you do not have one already installed. For example, the authors are using Sun's VirtualBox, simply because it provides network support without forcing us to play around more with the settings and the command prompt.
In addition, you also have to install an optical drive emulator software to get a LiveCD running in a virtual machine (of course, that depends on the virtual machine you use. I use Daemon Tools Lite)
Here are the steps you must follow to be able to run Android from your own computer directly. This is a common step rough, but the authors are so confident you'll get the hang of pretty quickly.
Step 1 - Download the two parts of the Live CD. ISO file from a web page android (link provided above).
Step 2 - Combine the two segments into one using a special application (hjsplit link included above).
Step 3 - Download and install the Sun's VirtualBox.
Step 4 - Download and install the CD / DVD emulator.
Step 5 - Mounting the LiveCD image to a CD / DVD emulator.
Step 6 - Create a new virtual machine using virtualization software (For good results allocate at least 256MB of RAM, while the HDD space is not so important, but must have at least a few hundred MB).
Step 7 - In the virtualization software, select the virtual drive on the LiveCD image that has been mounted as boot drives.
Step 8 - Create a virtual machine.
After completing step 8, the virtual machine started to boot up. There, you will be able to access the Android OS, although there are fitur2 diminished.
However, the LiveCD is mostly aimed at developers, who actually have to make application for this operating system, so that normal users will not benefit too much from it, regardless of the possibility for a closer look at what they should expect from a Google-based OS.
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