Mobile OS virtual machines for Android?

Question

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I would like to get acquainted with some mobile-tablet operating systems (WinPhone, Win8, BlackBerry OS, Boot to Gecko...), running them in VirtualBox analog, but for android. It makes no sense to buy devices for the sake of satisfying curiosity, the device did not even work on Boot To Geckoo, and Win8 is not interesting on a device without a touch screen.

Please suggest a way to make it happen.

Answer 1

There are no virtualbox emulators for android. The only thing you can try to run from your list is Boot to Gecko (chroot + vnc), but it will not be the same as on the device with it. With windows and blackberry os nothing will work at all.

Answer 2

BlackBerry emulators: us.blackberry.com/developers/resources/simulators.jsp
Those for smartphones are Win-only. Distributed in the form of installers, each is placed in its own subdirectory.
The one for the playbook is available for Win/Mac/Lin. Previously, the installer was unpacked into a regular ISO-shnik that could be installed in VMWare, then there was a time when it was unpacked into a ready-made Wirth. machine for VMWare - take it and run it. What now - I do not know, I have not tried it for a long time.

Answer 3

Purely theoretically, you can try to run something through QEMU . Here is a thread that discusses this version of QEMU and where the source code is posted. But I doubt that anything will work on it, except for old operating systems.