Most of us are aware of the Google Android OS running on handheld gadgets. And proving their on-going commitment, Google has released a Live CD with the latest Android version, designed specifically to run on any PC, regardless of the particular operating systems installed on the respective machine.

To get the Android running on your computer, you can choose two different methods: The first being an easy one; using a physical Live CD (burning the Android OS image onto a CD and then running it). And, the second being a difficult choice; using a virtual machine running on your computer, which doesn’t involve any rebooting and therefore, works for people who don’t have an optical unit to burn discs.

Method 1: Burning your Live CD

Step 1 – Download Live CD and .iso file from the LiveAndroid web page.
Step 2 – Combine the two segments into a single one using HJSplit.
Step 3 – Burn the resulting .iso image onto a blank CD using your favorite disc burning application.
Step 4 – Reboot your computer (make sure that the CD-ROM drive is placed ahead of the HDD in the list of boot devices).
Step 5 – Uploading of Android Live CD will take few seconds and then voila! You have the Google Android operating system running on your computer.

Method 2: Running the Android OS on a virtual machine on your computer

Step 1 – Download Live CD and .iso file from the LiveAndroid web page
Step 2 – Combine the two segments into a single one using HJSplit
Step 3 – Download and install the virtualization software.
Step 4 – Download and install the CD/DVD emulator.
Step 5 – Mount the LiveCD image into the CD/DVD emulator.
Step 6 – Create a new virtual machine using the virtualization software (it is recommended to allocate 256MB of RAM for this machine and a couple of hundreds of MB for HDD space).
Step 7 – Inside the virtualization software, select the virtual drive on which the LiveCD image has been mounted as the boot drive.
Step 8 – Start the virtual machine.

After finishing step 8, the virtual machine should start booting up. Then, you will be able to access the Android OS.

Hope this hand-on-guide is a good help for all the Android lovers, who would like to install this technology on their PCs as well.