There are different ways
to run android applications in desktop/laptop platform. We can list out many differences in-between
mobile phone/smart phone and desktop/laptop both in hardware and software. The main different is heterogeneity in processor
architecture. Android supports 3
type of processor architectures: ARM, Intel and MIPS and among them ARM is most
popular. However, normal
laptop/desktop has processor of Intel x86 or x64 architecture. So, the incompatibility
is clearly visible in the current scenario.
To solve
this problem, The
Android-x86 Project has ported Android operating system to the x86 platform
from ARM. The Android-x86 is an open source project licensed under Apache Public License 2.0. The source code for all the latest
Android operating system are available on the The Android-x86 Project website.
Now, actual question is not answered. Android operating system
can run as a virtual machine like other operating system such as windows or
Ubuntu. So, we need a hypervisor to install the android VM. This can be done
using Virtualbox or VMware workstation. So, before installation, we have to
download any virtualization software(i.e. Virtualbox or VMware workstation) and
Android-x86
image file.
Once Virtualbox is installed in the system, we can
create a Virtual Machine (VM) after giving proper configuration. Now the next
step is to boot the Android-x86 image VM that we have created.
Links:
http://www.vmware.com/in/products/workstation
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