Attempting an Android guest

[mpack]

No, Flash for Android is designed for ARM and sometimes for specific graphics chipsets in specific Android devices. It won't work on Android x86. ISTR Adobe Air doesn't work either.

[MykRian]

You need to have "absolute pointing" disabled - or Disable Mouse Integration (Host-I)
Click inside the guest window will then capture the mouse, and the host key will release the mouse from the WM.
Host-H will shut down the guest.

Host-I worked. Thank you.

[dhdurgee]

I have installed android 4.3 from the iso in virtualbox 4.2.24 and am able to run it with the known limitations. Am I the first to notice that hitting Left_Alt and Left_Arrow simultaneously gives access to the root terminal window? I tried to take advantage of this to install the linux guest additions, but am not getting very far.

First, I found that it appears that the virtual CD-ROMs are not supported by the linux running under android 4.3, as I never see it. I found that USB drives are available via /mnt/USBx, so I copied autorun.sh, runasroot.sh and VBoxLinuxAdditions.run to a USB drive and attempted to run it from there.

Attempting to run autorun.sh tells me to try running manually. Trying to run VBoxLinuxAdditions.run directly first complained about the lack of "/tmp" and suggested I add a --target, when I did so it then complained about not being able to find cksum even though md5sum is available.

Any suggestions on how to get this to work? Will it, as I hope, enable proper mouse/keyboard integration if I can get it installed?

Dave