I've tried half of last night to get some "recent" Android version to run in Virtualbox. Downloaded ISOs from Android-x86 between 5.1 and 7.0, read at least 10 howtos, but got none even to boot past Grub. Any clues? Running Virtualbox on Linux Mint 18.1. Increased RAM to 2G, video mem to 32M, CPU to dualcore. No way.
Tried normal mode and VESA, the VM gets stuck as soon as it tries to load the kernel. Tried to install, and it gets stuck at 0% of formatting the disk to ext4.