Can't write in the mounted Virtual Disk belonging to Android x86

[Sylence]

Using VMware workstation 12 I installed Android 5.1 x86 and chose "ubuntu" as the guest OS "ext3" as the file system. obviously vmware-tools isn't supported on this guest OS so I mapped the virtual disk to my Windows 10 x64 host and it successfully appeared in "This PC" but the drive and files are read-only and some of them write-protected. the folders and files don't even have the "security" tab in their properties to change the file ownership. so does anybody know how to get full access to this disk? thanks.

[straycat19]

There are a lot of how-to pages and much more information on the vmware site on using android as a guest.  For starters I notice many of the use either FreeBSD or Linux 2.6 as the guest type.  There are also instructions on running it as a livecd in vmware.  Just depends on what you want to do.  

 

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=vmware+guest+os+android+5.1

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a72Ru4gQEHY

http://geeknizer.com/how-to-run-google-android-in-virtualbox-vmware-on-netbooks/

http://thetechjournal.com/how-to/tutorial-how-to-install-android-on-pc-with-vmware.xhtml

 

[Sylence]

46 minutes ago, straycat19 said:

here are a lot of how-to pages and much more information on the vmware site on using android as a guest.  For starters I notice many of the use either FreeBSD or Linux 2.6 as the guest type.  There are also instructions on running it as a livecd in vmware.  Just depends on what you want to do.  

 

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=vmware+guest+os+android+5.1

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a72Ru4gQEHY

http://geeknizer.com/how-to-run-google-android-in-virtualbox-vmware-on-netbooks/

http://thetechjournal.com/how-to/tutorial-how-to-install-android-on-pc-with-vmware.xhtml

 

 

I appreciate your effort but it's not that simple. if it was I wouldn't post it here and some other professional forums. I'm not saying it's a Jon Skeet-level question but it's kinda got me working on it for a few days now.

 

in fact I have zero problem installing it. to better understand my situation you can try doing the same thing I'm gonna achieve and you'll see the problem. 

I found a workaround for it though by myself but it requires both VMware workstation and virtualbox be installed at the same time, which I don't think is necessary at all, specially for slower machines.