Available Android Images
We offer ARM64 and x86_64 images with the following Android versions.
ARM64
- 16.0 (beta)
- 14.0
- 12.1
- 11.0
- 9.0 Pie (No longer supported)
- 7.0 Nougat (No longer supported)
x86_64
- 15.0
- 13.0
- 12.0
- 11.0
- 10.0
- 8.0 Oreo (No longer supported)
Set up and create an instance
Select your image and subscription plan
- Go to Alibaba Cloud Marketplace.
- Select an image (Android version + architecture) for your Genymotion instance.
- Click Choose Your plan and proceed to select your subscription plan.
Setup your instance
General settings
- In Elastic Compute Service, select the Custom Launch selection.
- In Billing Method, select Pay-As-You-Go.
- In Region, select your geographical area.
- The zone determines what computing resources are available and where your data is stored and used.
- In Network and zone, select a VPC and a vSwitch.
Instances & Images
- In the Instance section, select the Instance type that matches your image architecture (x86 or arm64).
- In the Instance section, select the Instance type that matches your need.
- We recommend the following instance types depending on your usage:
- Usage ARM64
- Basic Android environment: ecs.c6r.large
- Low-profile Android environment: ecs.g6r.large
- Standard Android environment: ecs.c6r.xlarge
- Professional Android environment: ecs.g6r.xlarge
- High-end Android environment: ecs.c6r.2xlarge
- Usage x86_64
- Basic Android environment: ecs.s2.small
- Low-profile Android environment: ecs.s2.large
- Standard Android environment: ecs.s3.large
- Professional Android environment: ecs.m1.medium
- High-end Android environment: ecs.c1.large
- Available instance types may change depending on the region!
- In the Image section, make sure that Marketplace Image is selected.
Storage
- In the Storage section, select the System Disk type and size (default: Ultra Disk). Minimum is 40GiB.
- Note: Storage space is less expensive with Ultra Disk (default).
- SSD Cloud Disk is better for random IOPS or streaming throughput with low latency.
- It is unnecessary to add a Data Disk, because it won't be used in the instance.
Bandwidths & Security Groups
- In the Public IP Address section, check Assign Public IPv4 Address to assign a public IP to your instance.
- Please note that without a public IP, your instance will not be reachable outside of Alicloud VPC!
- In Security Group, select the custom Security Group you want to use.
- If you already have Security Groups, click Select Security Group.
- Otherwise, select the New Security Group tab to create a new group.
- You can create a Basic Security Group with SSH, HTTPS and HTTP for basic access.
- Or you can use an Advanced Security Group for more refined security settings.
- You can only add basic access (SSH, HTTPS, HTTP) at this point.
- You may need to edit your security Group later to refine your security or add more rules, such as ADB access.
- For details about security settings, please refer to Requirements - Network security settings.
Management
- In the Management section, you can set or create a key pair to access the instance via SSH.
- For more details about SSH access, please refer to Accessing an instance with SSH.
- You can select Set Later to set the key pair later.
- Do not use ecs-user as username.
Create your instance
- Read Alibaba ECS Terms of Service carefully and click Create Order to get started.
- You will be prompted when your instance is ready.
Access an instance with a web browser
- Once the initial setup is done, the instance automatically starts.
- It can take up to two minutes before the instance can be accessed through the web browser.
- From the management console, in Instances, select the instance you want to access.
- From the IP address column, copy the Internet IP address and paste it to your web browser.
- A connection warning pops up.
- Click Advanced and proceed to connect.
- To remove this warning permanently, you must install a trusted certificate.
- By default, the username is genymotion and the password is the Instance ID of the instance you can retrieve from column Instance ID/Name.
- To change the default username and password, please refer to Change authentication.
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