Available Android Images
Alibaba Cloud Marketplace offers Android images for two architectures: ARM64 and x86_64.
The available Android versions for both architectures are listed below.
16.0 (beta)
15.0
14.0
13.0
12.1
12.0
11.0
10.0
9.0 Pie (No longer supported)
8.0 Oreo (No longer supported)
7.0 Nougat (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 plus architecture) for your Genymotion instance.
Click Choose Your plan.
Proceed to select your subscription plan.
Setup your instance
General settings
In Elastic Compute Service, select Custom Launch.
In Billing Method, select Pay-As-You-Go.
In Region, select your geographical area.
The zone determines what computing resources are available and where 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).
Select based on your usage needs.
We recommend the following instance types depending on usage.
| Usage | ARM64 | x86_64 | | Basic Android environment | ecs.c6r.large | ecs.s2.small | | Low-profile Android environment | ecs.g6r.large | ecs.s2.large | | Standard Android environment | ecs.c6r.xlarge | ecs.s3.large | | Professional Android environment | ecs.g6r.xlarge | ecs.m1.medium | | High-end Android environment | ecs.c6r.2xlarge | ecs.c1.large |
Available instance types may change depending on the region. In the Image section, ensure Marketplace Image is selected.
Storage
In the Storage section, select the System Disk type.
Set the System Disk size (minimum 40GiB).
The default System Disk is Ultra Disk.
Ultra Disk is cheaper than other options.
SSD Cloud Disk is better for random IOPS or streaming throughput with low latency.
A Data Disk is not needed because it won’t be used by the instance.
Bandwidths & Security Groups
In Public IP Address, select Assign Public IPv4 Address.
Without a public IP, the 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.
Only basic access (SSH, HTTPS, HTTP) can be added at this point.
You may need to edit your security group later to refine 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 the username.
Create your instance
Read Alibaba ECS terms carefully, then 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 into your web browser.
A connection warning may pop 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 the Instance ID from the Instance ID/Name column.
To change the default username and password, please refer to Change authentication.
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