Magisk On Emulator, Android x86 project

About

Integrate Magisk root into Nox Player and other Android x86, emulators

Features

• Bring Magisk / Zygisk to Android x86
• MagiskHide / MagiskDenyList for hiding root
• Magisk / Zygisk modules work properly!

Note: Some features might not work on some emulator, Please read Emulator that Magisk can work properly to know which Magisk features doesn't work.

Requirements

• Android x86 project: BlissOS 11 - Android 9
• Phoenix OS is not supported yet
• Android Emulator (NoxPlayer, LDPlayer, ...): Emulator that Magisk can work properly.
• Android version: 7.1 ~ 9.0 (legacy rootfs)

Download

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Installation

Install Magisk into system

Video: How to install Magisk and LSPosed on Nox Player emulator

Install Magisk into system image, so your system must be able to be mounted as read-write

It's recommended for Android emulator, as you don't have ramdisk.img. Also extract ramdisk.img through Android emulator environment is very difficult.

1. Go to emulator settings, enable built-in Root and reboot.

• Bluestacks: Because Bluestacks emulator doesn't have built-in root option, so you need to use Bluestacks Tweaker to install SuperSU for root

2. Download and install Magisk On Nox. Open and grant root access to Magisk on Nox app

3. Do follow the menu to install Magisk. Here are 3 versions of Magisk that you can install: Canary, Alpha and Stable.

4. Go to emulator settings, disable built-in Root and reboot. For Bluestacks, press UnPatch button in Bluestacks Tweaker to remove SuperSU.

Install Magisk into ramdisk (system)

Recommended if you have ramdisk.img or you are using Android x86 project (BlissOS)

This guide is quite confusing and may not be for the average user

You must have copy of ramdisk.img

Patch ramdisk through Android emulator

• You can use Magisk on Nox to patch ramdisk.img of Android x86 through emulator such as NoxPlayer, MEmu and then take new ramdisk.img. Replace current ramdisk.img with magisk patched ramdisk.img.

Direct install into Android x86

1. Boot to Android x86

2. Press ALT+F1 to open root shell and pay attention to this text (it may look like):

Detecting Android-x86... found at /dev/<blockname>

• That's mean Android x86 was installed at /dev/<blockname>

3. Press ALT+F7 to close root shell.

4. Install and open Magisk on Nox.

• Grant root access if you have
• If you don't have root access, press ALT+F1 and type this command:

/data/data/io.github.huskydg.magiskonnox/magisk/menu

5. The menu will be displayed, go Install/update Magisk > Select Magisk build > Install Magisk into ramdisk > Direct install

• You will need to select a from partition where you have this Android x86 installed, usually it will be /dev/block/<blockname>.
• After select the partition, now you will need to select ramdisk.img correctly!
• Then Magisk on Nox will patch ramdisk.img install it into ramdisk.

6. Reboot Android x86 and enjoy Magisk.

Uninstall

• Magisk on Nox has option to uninstall Magisk. If you install Magisk into ramdisk.img, you cannot uninstall directly, please just replace it with original ramdisk.img

Update

• Since Nox/Emulator doesn't have boot image, you cannot update directly through Magisk app, please use Magisk On Nox to update it.
• If you install Magisk into ramdisk.img, you can use Update binary option to update Magisk without having to patch ramdisk.img again!

Frequently asked Questions

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Credits

• Magisk: The most famous root solution on Android
• MagiskOnWSA: For Magisk on WSA script, how to integrate Magisk on Emulator