If you are an Android lover, there seems no end to the variety of devices to which you can port Android to. First it was just a couple of phones, then there was a massive flood with every single handset manufacturer stepping in with an Android boat afloat. Now, you can find Android on phones, tablets, music players, televisions, portable games, electronic devices – but there was this one domain yet remaining; Computers!
Now, you don’t have to wait anymore to run Android on your Windows based PC, or on a Mac or on Linux. As long as you can run VirtualBox on your machine, you can run Android. So you get the best of both world, flip in and out of Android back to your PC/Mac/Linux OS as and when you want.

Follow the steps below to quickly setup and run Android Ice cream sandwich on your Computer.

Step 1: Setup

1. Download VirtualBox from Oracle’s website for your flavor of OS
2. Install it with default configuration
3. Now, download a copy of Android Ice cream sandwich for Virtualbox from VMLite by clicking this link.
4. The downloaded Android-v4.7z is a 7zip file. Extract the contents to a folder of your choice using a 7zip extractor (you can use Winrar)

Step 2: Execution

1. From the list of extracted files, find the file called Android-v4.vbox.
2. Double click to open the file in VirtualBox and boot up the ICS file
3. Select the Android startup from /dev/sda option if prompted for (this is selected by default, see image below)
   
4. Android 4.0 Ice cream Sandwich should now be up and running.

Enjoy