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Deugging with VirtualBox (or other x86 virtual machine)

Note: There are some issues with current Proxmark3 firmware through an emulator, so this may not work.

The standard Android emulator doesn't support USB. However, VirtualBox (and other x86 VMs) do!

For this, you'll need:

  • An x86 virtual machine (eg: VirtualBox)
  • An Android system image (eg: Android-x86)

Android-x86 enables ADB over TCP debugging by default, so additional steps may be required if you use other images.

VirtualBox settings:

  • Your user should be in vboxusers, otherwise USB will not work. You will need to log out and log in again for this to take effect.

  • Create a new host-only adapter in VirtualBox preferences.

In the Virtual Machine:

  • General/Basic: Use Linux 2.6 / 3.x / 4.x profile
  • System/Motherboard: Base memory: 2048 MiB
  • System/Motherboard: Boot device: Optical only
  • System/Motherboard: Pointing Device: PS/2 Mouse
  • Storage/IDE: Only android-x86_64-6.0_r1.iso should be inserted, enable "Live CD/DVD".
  • Audio: Disable audio
  • Network/Adapter 1: During setup, use Bridge or NAT. Once set up, use Host-only Adapter.
  • USB: USB 1.1 controller should be enabled
  • USB: Add device filter for vendor 9ac4 device 4b8f (for current Proxmark3 firmware).
  • USB: Add device filter for vendor 2d2d device 504d (for old Proxmark3 firmware).

Then when you start up the Android-x86 environment, enable debug features (Settings > About > click Build number 7 times).

Once you have the environment configured but before connecting with adb, snapshot the running system in VirtualBox so you can boot quickly.

Then in your host, connect to adb with adb connect 192.168.56.101 (substituting with the actual IP address of the guest).

If prompted by Google Play Services to check for harmful / malicious software, and you do not have an active Internet connection in this VM (eg: using host-only adapter), press Disagree. Otherwise the system may hang for a while attempting to connect to Google.