Unmuting BlueStacks from the Side toolbar
Please update GPU drivers (NVIDIA/AMD).Change your power plan to “High performance” in the Control Panel.Allocate more RAM and CPU cores in BlueStacks Settings.Make sure that Virtualization is turned ON.18 Should I enable virtualization for BlueStacks?.15 What is the best Android emulator for low end PC?.13 Which is the safest Android emulator?.10 How can I get Snapchat on my PC without BlueStacks 2020?.4 Is there something better than BlueStacks?.Now we need to find out the IP address of the Android VM and adjust file permissions on the run-as tool to support debugging properly.Once done with personalization, select Terminal from the list of apps:.As VMWare is emulating a wired controller, we won’t need WiFi: Select your language from the list and click on the button to the right: Once Android loads, it will show the customization menu.After you restart the VM, it will boot from the hard disk allowing to select the mode to start.
The Android installer will then install the system to your hard disk.Select “Yes” as we will need to do some modifications to support debugging properly: The installer will ask you whether you want the system directory to be read-write.In order to boot Android from the hard disk, install the GRUB loader:.Format the partition with the ext3 file system:.Once you exit the cfdisk tool, the created partition will appear in the menu.Create one Linux partition for the entire disk and select “Save”:.A basic text-mode Linux environment will boot and the installation menu will appear.The ISO image you have specified will show a prompt asking whether you want to run Android or install it. Now you can start the virtual machine.Finally, remove the hard disk and add an IDE one instead of it:.
Then mount the ISO image you downloaded to the virtual CD drive:.First, switch the network to the bridged mode so that the emulated device gets an IP address we can connect to: Before completing the wizard click “Customize hardware”:.Note that VMWare will create a SCSI disk by default and we will have to replace it with an IDE one:
This tutorial shows how to accelerate the Android App development using virtual devices by replacing the slow Android emulator with faster VMWare.