I assume that this is possible with the android-x86 OS (is this the correct name? not sure...), which is an android system based on PC architecture, so yes you can run it from a virtualbox, then put the VBOX in hybrid mode and you can run these apps showing directly on your desktop - the only issue here is that booting an OS also takes a lot of RAM, which can be easily bigger than a browser's tab. Solution?: probably run it from a chroot, like explained here Run applications from any other operating system (in your Elive) , so it doesn't consumes any RAM nor any resouces except the ones of the app itself, I have successfully run songbird from a small debian wheezy chroot