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In this article, I am going to show you how to install android 7.0 Nougat on VirtualBox. As the google team says about Android 7.0 Nougat “Android Nougat is our sweetest release yet, with more ways to make Android your own”. There are many new and cool features that are included in this big update. Like, over 1500 emoji including 72 new ones, multi Locale language settings, multi-window view, quick switch between apps, custom quick settings, notification direct reply, bundled notifications, notification controls and much more stuff like that. If you want to get more information what’s new then click here.
Anyway, the new Android 7.0 Nougat is the lasted operating system from google. Now if you want to know how do I install it on VirtualBox then follow the steps below step by step, and also check our article about, how to install Android Nougat on PC.
Install Android 7.0 Nougat on VirtualBox
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Step #1. Firstly you have to download the VirtualBox and Android 7.0 Nougat iso file. If you have VirtualBox already installed on your PC then that’s okay then just download Android 7.0 Nougat iso file.
Step #2. If you have installed VirtualBox already then just open it and if you don’t have then install and open it that you have nearly downloaded from the link above.
Create Android 7.0 Nougat Virtual Machine
Step #3. When the VirtualBox is opened on the home page click New to create a new virtual machine(VM).
Step #4. On the “Name and operating system” windows, type any name that you would like to name your Android 7.0 Nougat VM then Choose Linux for type and for Version choose Other Linux (64-bit) then click Next.
Name and Operating System
Step #5. Choose the Memory size to 2048 MB and click Next.
Step #6. After mentioning memory size, Select Create a virtual hard disk now on the Hard disk windows and click Create.
Hard Disk
Step #7. For hard disk file type, select VDI(VirtualBox Disk Image) and click Next.
Step #8. Select Dynamically allocated on the Storage on physical hard disk window and click Next.
Storage on Physical Hard Disk
Step #9. Now Select the size of the virtual hard disk in megabytes. This size is the limit on the amount of file data that a virtual machine will be able to store on the hard disk. Then Name the new virtual hard disk and click on the folder icon to save where you want. But I suggest you to leave it by default and click Create.
Edit Android 7.0 Nougat Virtual Machine
Step #10. After the previous step, your virtual machine should be created. So now select the VM and click on the Settings button.
Edit Android 7.0-Nougat Virtual Machine
Step #11. From left-hand side panel select System and on the Processor tab change it from 1 CPU to 2 CPU and left the others by default.
Step #12. On Display panel, Change the video memory to 128 MB and leave the others by default.
128 MB Video Memory
Step #13. Now Select Storage panel and choose the Controller: IDE and click on the (-) minus button from the bottom of the window to remove it.
Step #14. Again on the same panel, click the (+) Plus icon and Select Add IDE Controller.
Add IDE Controller
Step #15. On the Small Dialog box click Choose existing disk.
Step #16. Now in this Step go to This PC > Local Disk (C:) > Users > username > VirtualBox VMs > Android 7.0 Nougat VM Name that you named on step 4, Finally when you found the VDI file, select that and click Open.
Select Android 7.0 Nougat-VDI
Step #17. This time, click on the (+) plus with CD icon and select Leave empty.
Step #18. When you left the disk empty then select Empty with CD icon and Select the Optical Drive to IDE Secondary Master then click on the small CD icon and select Choose Virtual Optical Disk File.
Choose Virtual Optical Disk File
Step #19. Now, this time, Drive to The Android 7.0 Nougat iso file that you download from the link above then select that and click Open.
Step #20. When the file opened click OK and Save the Changes to that you made to the Android 7.0 Nougat virtual machine. Finally, you must be ready to play the VM.
Save Changes
Play Android 7.0 Nougat Virtual Machine
Step #21. So after all the settings that are mentioned above completed, then you’re done to go on and play the virtual machine, to install it on your VirtualBox. So now select the Android 7.0 Nougat virtual machine and click on the Start button to turn it on.
Install Android 7.0 Nougat on Virtual Machine Hard Disk
Step #22. When the machine started, After some seconds it must be booted into Android boot menu. So now from here Select the last option Installation – Install Android-x86 to harddisk and hit enter from your keyboard. This options must drive you to the Installation windows of Android 7.0 Nougat.
Install-Android-x86
Step #23. Now to install Android 7.0 Nougat on virtual machine hard disk you need a partition to install it on that. Select Create/Modify Partitions and hit enter from your keyboard.
Step #24. When you are asked to want to use GPT partition select No and hit enter from your keyboard.
Don’t Use GPT
Step #25. To create a new partition, on the partition page select New and hit enter from your keyboard.
Step #26. Select Primary partition and hit enter from your keyboard.
Primary Partition
Step #27. Type the size of the partition that you want to create and hit enter from your keyboard.
Step #28. A partition has been created, Now in order to make it bootable select Bootable and hit enter from your keyboard.
Make the Partition Bootable
Note: To make sure that the partition has been bootable, then you must see the Boot label under flags.
Step #29. After making the drive bootable, now select Write and hit enter from your keyboard.
Step #30. In this steps to confirm it, you need to type YES and hit enter from your keyboard.
Confirm it
Step #31. After writing the disk, you are done from here, so select Quit and hit enter from your keyboard.
Step #32. On the choose partition window, select the partition that you nearly created and hit enter from your keyboard.
Select SDA 1 Partition
Step #33. For the partition file system format, select ext4 and hit enter from your keyboard.
Step #34. Select YES and hit enter from your keyboard to confirm it.
Confirm Formating
Step #35. When you are asked want to install Grub Bootloader, select YES and hit enter from your keyboard.
Step #36. For the EFI GRUB 2, select Skip and hit enter from your keyboard.
EFI GRUB 2
Step #37. For system directory as read-write select Yes and hit enter from your keyboard.
Step #38. When the writes than on the screen below click on Devices > Optical Drivers > Remove disk from virtual drive.
Remove Disk from Virtual Drive
Step #39. When you get the screen below, click Force Unmount.
Step #40. You should be done installing the Android 7.0 Nougat successfully. Now select Reboot and hit enter from your keyboard.
Android-x86-Installed Successfully
Step #41. Every time you boot the Android 7.0 Nougat you will get this bootloader, leave it for some seconds or select Android-x86 2016-09-02 and hit enter from your keyboard.
Android 7.0 Nougat Installed on VirtualBox
Finally, that’s done, you have successfully installed Android 7.0 Nougat on VirtualBox. Here is the preview.
Android 7.0 Nougat Installed on VirtualBox
Conclusion
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The new Android 7.0 Nougatis released finally and has spirit almost everywhere on most of the phones. It’s been a long time waiting for it and now its comes like a boom with its brand new fantastic features developed by Googlethat includes; Best user experience, more security, clear graphics and much more. Now if you want to test it before installing on your phone or if you have an iOS device and want to use Android Nougat then you have the best choice to do it without installing it on your PC fully or installing on your phone. In this article, I will show you how to install Android 7.0 Nougat on VMware step by step, let’s get started.
Install Android Nougat on VMware Step by Step
As Android Nougat is the brand new OS, it has lots of updates and new features also it’s the latest Android OS till now and much more but you might don’t know much because we haven’t introduced anything about it, in this case we’ll have an article about it which will be aimed at introducing + explaining about the updates and everything later than this.
1# Download & Install the Required Files
Before getting started fully, you need to download & install or extract the required files from the given links below.
2# Create, Edit, Customize the VM
When the files downloaded, installed or extracted, now open VMware and click on Create a new machine(Ctrl+N), on the wizard, just hit Next.
New Virtual Machine Wizard
On this page, select “I will install the operating system later” and click Next.
Here just select Other>FreeBSD and click Next.
Select a Guest OS
Now customize the virtual machine as you want and hit Next.
And it’s time to review and finish the virtual machine, so have a check and hit Finish.
VM Ready For Installation
#3 Customize the Virtual Machine
Now that you’ve finished creating virtual machine, it’ the turn of editing virtual machine settings and start it.
To do it first, go ahead and click on Edit virtual machine settings, on the page, select CD/DVD option and select Use ISO image file then browse the ISO image file of Android Nougat 7.0.
Notice: Use extracted ISO image file of Android 7.0 otherwise it won’t boot up.
Now select Memory option and add memory at least 1GB or further than that then click Ok.
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Virtual Machine Settings – Add Memory
#4 Install the Virtual Machine
Everything is ready, go on click the Power on button and have a look at your screen until it boots up, when it booted it will look like the shot, go down with the arrow key then click Enter on “Installation -Install Android-x86 to harddisk“.
In this step, choose Create/Modify partitions and hit Enter.
Choose-Partition
And reject using GPT by choosing No and hit Enter.
Here just select New with the arrow keys and hit Enter.
New Partition
Choose Primary from partition type.
New Partition
Specify the disk size and hit Enter.
On this page, hit Enter on Bootable option.
Select Write>Type Yes when you’ll be asked.
Write Partition Table
Time to quit the partition page, go on Quit and hit Enter.
Now click Ok on the partition(SDV1) then select Ext4 from filesystem.
Choose Filesystem
When you’ll be asked for formatting select Yes.
And again choose Yes for Bootloader GRUB.
Confirm
Then Skip the EFI GRUB.
Now confirm to create a disk image by hitting Yes and when you’ll have to specify just hit Enter.
Question
And if you’ll be asked to format the boot partition just hit Yes.
On the creating disk page, just hit enter on the size input and on the next page you’ll be asked for installing system directory as read-write, hit Enter.
Question
After hitting yes, it will take a moment to setup them all, when finished, you’ll have the Android-x86 installed page, go down on Reboot and hit enter.
While rebooting, you’ll see the page like this and just hit Enter or wait a sec it will boot automatically. Here it shows that you’ve installed it on your VMware hard disk fully.
Select an OS
When the installing and rebooting finished, the screen will appear soon and that’s Android Nougat 7.0. Once you’ve installed, now you can test, use and enjoy it fully.
At this point, right click on the above virtual machine name>Removable Devices>CD/DVD>Disconnect because we’ve already installed it on our VMware hard disk and it doesn’t need anymore.
Remove CD/DVD from virtual machine
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