Install Android On Vmware Workstation 17 — How To

The VM rebooted. GRUB loaded. Android boot animation appeared. The three dots swirled. And swirled. And swirled.

Leo never did get Google Play Store working that night. But he got Android running. He installed F-Droid, grabbed a retro game emulator, and played Sonic the Hedgehog at 2x resolution with a USB controller passed through to the VM.

The guide online said, "It's easy! Just download the ISO and click next."

It lied.

He force-reset the VM. Again, the boot loop. He began to suspect Android didn't want to be installed. It wanted to be free .

And he never told them how long it really took.

He stared at the ceiling for a full minute.

Ten minutes. Twenty.

He rebooted. In the Android GRUB menu, he highlighted the boot entry and pressed e to edit. He added nomodeset to the kernel line. This disabled hardware graphics acceleration temporarily.

The screen turned black. Then, a blue terminal screen appeared. "Create/modify partitions?"

Leo realized: the x86 build he downloaded had no Google Apps. He needed OpenGApps or MindTheGapps.