The Droid4x emulator is a real Android virtual machine with which developers can use to develop and test apps. And you can even download apps from the Google Play store.

Android and Windows are totally different operating systems. But that doesn't mean they can't work together on the same machine.

Download the Android Live CD (see Resources). Open VMware and configure a new virtual machine. Select the downloaded ISO image as the installation source for the virtual machine.

Microsoft, doing its best to facilitate its Edge and web platforms, is giving away free VMware and VirtualBox virtual machines. Developers can download — free of charge — VMs running: XP ...

Jide Technology has released Remix OS Player, a new Android emulator that creates a virtual Android 6.0.1 desktop within the Windows environment for free.

Android 13 isn't a massive update so far, but it does include some improvements to virtualization which allowed Windows to boot on a Pixel.