Networking - no network in Android x86 on VirtualBox 4.1.2. Dead fish » Blog Archive » Access the Android menu in VirtualBox on a Mac host. Performance - Slow Android emulator. Android 4.0 in VirtualBox - Kirsle.net. Kirsle Posted by Noah Petherbridge on Wednesday, July 11 2012 @ 01:02:10 AM This information is a little hard to find on the Internet.
This is how to install Android 4.0 (Ice Cream Sandwich) in VirtualBox, in a "do it yourself" way (installing from an ISO image). There are some people who have made pre-installed VirtualBox images, but one problem you may run into going that route is that the Android serial number will match everybody else who's using the same image as you, since Android generates this number on its first boot. Screenshot of my Android VM. Click for bigger version. First of All (Update 9/3/13) Apparently, the official Release version of Android 4.0 from android-x86.org should work completely out-of-the-box in VirtualBox: android-4.0-r1. (Update 8/30/13) This blog post is about a very particular build of Android 4.0 that is linked to later in this post.
Getting an Android ISO I found the ISO here: android-x86 VirtualBox/VMWare support (thanks @jakimfett!) Create a Virtual Machine. Download.