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I installed virtualbox, but now what? I'm computer illiterate.

There's just one specific game I'm trying to play. My smartphone was stolen in a home invasion and this is really the least of my problems, yet here I am. I downloaded the game, I downloaded virtualbox. The game says there is no device installed.

Opened virtualbox and got as far as this message:

On the System page, you have assigned more than 50% of your computer's memory (1001.00 MB) to the virtual machine. There might not be enough memory left for your host operating system. Continue at your own risk.

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    It seems you are missing the point of virtual machines: you need to download a copy of the Android operating system, install that in a virtual machine, and then try to install the game in the virtual machine. From your question, I can't tell whether you have installed Android. If all you want to do is play the game, you can ignore the memory warning. – Jos Jul 28 '13 at 09:10
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    Possible duplicate of How to run an Android emulator in Ubuntu 13.04 – Wilf Oct 21 '15 at 22:25

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By the way, the actual fixes for the error:

On the System page, you have assigned more than 50% of your computer's memory (1001.00 MB) to the virtual machine. There might not be enough memory left for your host operating system. Continue at your own risk

could be:

  • Assign less RAM to the Virtual Machine - I think Android is happy to run with a minimum of 128 MB of memory available, but a game will likely require more.
  • Ignore the error and continue - you will likely need to close every over program before running Android otherwise you computer may drastically slow down/crash
  • Use a computer with more memory if available, or upgrade the amount of RAM in your computer

Install virtualbox:

sudo apt-get install virtualbox

Then you can use GenyMotion to install Android for you.

Find out whether your computer is 32bit or 64bit, then download the right 32bit or 64bit version.

Then you can use these instructions to install it - basically, make the downloaded .bin file executable, then run it in terminal inside the folder you want it to install to - I think the terminal has to be in the same folder as well.

Then you can download the Android VM and run it inside Genymotion - you can open Genymotion by clicking on the genymotion executable.

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