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1. #Install android emulator engine for ubuntu x86 install#
2. #Install android emulator engine for ubuntu x86 software#

If you're not login to your machine as the root user, the terminal would prompt your to enter your computer password before the installation.

#Install android emulator engine for ubuntu x86 install#

Installing Qemu is easy just type in the "sudo apt-get install" as shown in the picture above in the system terminal, the system would then automatically download and install the Qemu project for you. Since we are creating an Android emulator on a computer instead of installing one on a smartphone, we'll first have to install Qemu on our computer Qemu allows us to run an Android operating system image on our computer. With different CPU architectures, a smartphone operating system can't be directing installed and used on a normal computer. Just like cars and airplanes, while they all have engines to power their movements, their engines are not the same. Smartphones and computers are similar in that they both have CPU chips to process information, however, with the differences physical dimensions between the two devices, their CPU chips are not the same in terms of architecture. This ability presented by Qemu is crucial to the creation of an Android emulator on a computer. Such virtualization software, Qemu, enables the installation of different operating systems without the operating systems being directly linking to the hardware machine.

#Install android emulator engine for ubuntu x86 software#

Qemu is a hardware virtualization software that obscures the actual physical hardware specifics of the machine from the higher level software programs.