Android-x86 virtual machine configuration tips

Android-x86 virtual machine configuration tips

There are already several guides to install android x86 on virtual machines, but never about configuring them. This guide will show the most useful tips and tricks. If you read this without an Android x86 virtual machine follow below guides to install android x86 on a virtual machine:
This guide is writing with Androidx86 7.1-r2 as android version.

Configure Android x86 to run with a GUI

Android is based on Linux, which result that a default installation results in only terminal access. If you want a graphical user interface, and Yea we all want to use Android the same as a phone, we need to configure it to boot with a GUI.
During installation GRUB is installed. Every time the Android x86 device boots, first GRUB is visible.

Androidx86 grub menu

In the GRUB menu select the Android-x86 7.1-r2 (Debug mode) menu item and press enter. Within a few seconds Android is booted in debug mode. Within this debug mode GRUB can be configured to boot with a GUI.

Execute the following steps:
  • Execute the command mount -o remount,rw /mnt to remount the GRUB share
  • Execute the command cd /mnt/grub to navigate to the GRUB share
  • Execute the command vi menu.lst to open menu.lst inside vi (command line editor)
  • Inside vi: 4 Android boot configuration are visible
  • Inside vi: Navigate to the first Android boot configuration
  • Inside vi: Add to the line which starts with kernal /android.. on the end nomodeset UVESA_MODE=1024x728
  • Inside vi: Save the changes
  • Execute the command reboot -f to reboot the device
Androidx86 vi menu.lst
Upon booting the GRUB menu select the first option and Android with a GUI will boot. When booting for the first time it can take several minutes.
android boot logo

Configure Android x86 with a static IP address

Often Android x86 is used to act as Android device within a Continuous Integration (CI) environment like Jenkins. With the available network interface an adb connecting can be created.


powershell adb connect ip
For these usage is not recommended to configure Android network interface with DHCP, every day the Android device can get a different IP address. The easiest way to configure a static IP address is again in debug mode.

Reboot the Android device and in the GRUB menu select the Android-x86 7.1-r2 (Debug mode) menu item and press enter. Within a few seconds Android is booted in debug mode.
  • Execute the command cd /android/etc to navigate to the etc folder
  • Execute the command vi init.sh to open init.sh inside vi (command line editor)
  • Inside vi: Navigate to the end of the file
  • Inside vi: Add the following lines, just before return 0
    • ifconfig eth0 192.168.1.159 netmask 255.255.255.0
    • ip rule add from all lookup main pref 0
    • busybox route add default gw 192.168.1.1
    • ndc resolver setnetdns 100 localdomain 192.168.1.1
  • Inside vi: Save the changes
  • Execute the command reboot -f to reboot the device
vi init.sh



The next this Android x86 is booted above configuration is loaded and the device has a fixed IP address.


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  1. Chitwan Bindal23 mei 2020 om 07:01

    Heyy mate!! You can do some modifications in this blog. Like:
    1. Adding how to edit menu.lst file.
    2. Adding how to save the file.

    Thanks.🙂

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    1. Android hackathon blog4 februari 2021 om 01:50

      Hey Chitwan,
      To modify the file menu.lst, we use in this post the tool "vi", a console text editor.
      How does it work, well we can write another blog about that. Probably to must useful right now are some videos, they already cover "how to use vi":
      - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pU2k776i2Zw
      - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ggSyF1SVFr4

      Good luck!

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  2. Dewa Umega4 maart 2021 om 19:10

    Thank's Brother ... Regards

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