Installing Android 2.2 on Hyper-V

This is a post that describes how to install Android 2.2 in Hyper-V.  While Android is designed for smart phones – there are a number of ports out there for running on standard computers.

Today I am going to show you how to get Android 2.2 running in a Hyper-V virtual machine.  It is an older version of Android – but it is also the easiest version to get working well inside of Hyper-V.

To start with you are going to need to get the x86 install media for Android 2.2.  You can download this from here:

http://code.google.com/p/android-x86/downloads/detail?name=android-x86-2.2-generic.iso

Next you are going to want to create a virtual machine with:

• 1 virtual processor
• A legacy network adapter
• A blank 16GB virtual hard disk

Then connect the ISO file to the DVD-ROM drive of the virtual machine and boot it up.  You should soon see a boot menu where you can select Installation – Install Android-x86 to harddisk:

(You can use the Live CD options – but I prefer to have a real install).

At this point you will get dumped into text mode to do some partitioning.  First select to Create / Modify partitions

This will take you to the partitioning tool:

Here you will need to:

• Select New
• Select Primary
• Accept the default partition size that the tool offers
• Select Bootable
• Select Write and type in yes
• Select Quit

Now you will have a new partition that you can select for the installation

More at source: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/virtual_pc_guy/archive/2012/03/07/installing-android-2-2-on-hyper-v.aspx

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