[TWEAK]INSTALLING ANDROID MARKET ON BLUESTACKS

Primary Way

1. You need to download this archive Google Play Store.rar.
2. After downloading the archive extract the folder "Market Install" to a simple place for eg on the Desktop.
3. Open the extracted folder "Market Install" and the Right click each file seperately and then select Open With and then BlueStacks APK Handler or if you dont see that option then click Browse and go to this directory:-
C:/Program Files (x86)/BlueStacks and then select HD-ApkHandler.exe and click OK.
4. Restart BlueStacks and you have the Android Market right in front of you....

Alternate Way


1. You need to download these tools :- OSF MOUNT and EXT2 VOLUME MANAGER and ROOT EXPLORER.apk file. DOWNLOAD THE FILES FROM HERE:-

OSF Mount (32 Bit)  OSF Mount (64 Bit) 
EXT2 Volume Manager
ROOT EXPLORER.apk

2.After downloading and installing everything first of all kill all BlueStacks processes in the task manager (starting with HD-...) and then Open EXT2 Volume Manager click on Tools in the Menu Bar and then Service Management.

3. Under Service Startup Mode select "SERVICE_DEMAND_START" and then under GLOBAL VOLUME SETTINGS uncheck "Mount all volumes in read-only mode" and check "Enable writing support for ext3 volumes".

4. Under Service Status at the top you will notice "Ext2Fsd is NOT started". So click on the tab "START" just on its right and then click the "APPLY" button. A message will appear just click OK and minimize Ext2 Volume Manager.

5. Now Run OSF Mount and click on "Mount New" and then click the dotted button under "Image file" and then  browse to this folder
"C:/ProgramData/BlueStacks/Android and select "SDCard.fs" file

6. Remember to ***UNCHECK THE READ-ONLY DRIVE*** at the bottom. and then click OK.

7. Wait for it to mount and then open My Computer. Here you will see a new drive "SDCard(H:)" or "Local Disk (H:)" something similar. Open it. Here create a folder "Android" and copy the contents of the extracted archive in the main part and paste them into the newly created folder


8. After copying all the files Open OSF Mount again and click "Dismount all and Exit" and then click OK and wait for it to dismount devices and exit.

9. And then Restart BlueStacks.

10. In BlueStacks open Root Explorer and scroll down to "sdcard" folder and open Android folder and Install the three apps.



Visit this link to see the video of How To Install Android Market on BlueStacks Beta-1