The best practice is to select default i.e. It will ask then the storage on the physical hard drive, select this option based upon your requirement. Next it will ask a hard drive file type so, leave it default as we want to make a VDI file. Select Memory size to be allocated, normally 2GB of RAM is sufficient for Android.Ĭreate a virtual hard disk, the recommended size of the hard disk is 8GB. Type name of the machine, select OS type as Linux, select version of OS as Linux 2.6 / 3.x / 4.x (32 bit or 64 bit) then Click on Next. Select option “New” to create a virtual machine. Step.no 02 Create an Android virtual machine This gives you two sites to download this iso file. Select the version you wanted to install. Step.no: 01 Download an android iso file from an official site Virtualization feature should enable on the processor.

At least 20GB to 30GB of free disk space.

Before installation there are some prerequisites to follow: We will install the Android version 9 (latest up to the date) on VirtualBox. This android virtual machine is helpful in testing several security tools and techniques, to know how to hack android devices and to maintain access after exploiting an android device.

Because of its wide range of application support, users also want to run it on personal computers.įor Mobile penetration testing, it is essential to have an android virtual machine. Android is the most used open source, Linux-based Operating System with 2.5 billion active users.

Paravirtualization interface virtualbox