

I've also seen similar questions here and followed the advice from their answers:

I'm interested in help from those who've got it running fine in Virtualbox on Linux. Nor do I want to use QEMU for that (draws in too many dependencies I don't want to install), or Genymotion etc (where I'd have to register). I've followed a bunch of them without luck. Please don't point me to those numerous guides based on Virtualbox running on Windows. Switching the VM from "Linux (other)" to "BSD", trying 64bit and 32bit images (the 64bit images even get stuck at a black screen before the pulsating "Android" letters), the latter in 64bit and 32bit VMs, from the Android-x86 project via RemixOS to Phoenix, Android 5.1 to 7 – nothing gives. I've searched the web up and down, and tried all the tricks I could find: increasing RAM to 2G, video memory to 128M, CPU count to 2. At best, I get past the boot menu (Grub), the system switches to graphics mode, and I see the pulsating "Android": After a few seconds, disk access ceases, and the VM hangs with 100% CPU load. For days I try to get Android 5 or higher running inside Virtualbox on Linux (here: Mint 18.1), without success.
