I tried using Waydroid on Linux Mint (Edge) only to have it not work and realized that it requires Wayland, and Mint uses X11. So I used VirtualBox to install Fedora 40 Gnome which does use Wayland.

I installed Waydroid as per the instructions and am having seemingly the same issue as on Mint. After downloading “Vanilla” Android and clicking “Done” everything exits out. So I launch the Waydroid application but nothing ever happens.

I then try to manually start Waydroid in terminal but always get “ERROR: WayDroid container service is already running”. Then I skip to the second step “waydroid session start” but receive “OSError: container failed to start”.

Am I doing something wrong? Is it simply because the VM is causing the issues? Or does WayDroid not work well on Fedora? Thanks

  • @[email protected]
    23•8 months ago

    If you’re going to run waydroid in a VM, why not just run Android in a VM?

    Also why. The. Hell. Are. People. Still. Using. Virtualbox? What is this? 2005? You’re already running a kernel with built in world tier type 1 virtualization.

    • @[email protected]
      2•8 months ago

      Also why. The. Hell. Are. People. Still. Using. Virtualbox?

      Couldn’t get any Qemu-manager to work (and no time to master running it with scripts) and Vmware can use KVM as hypervisor. Virtualbox not?

      • @[email protected]
        8•8 months ago

        No, VirtualBox is a Type 2 hypervisor.

        I’m not sure what qemu-manager is, but virt-manager works out of the box on Debian at least. There are no scripts needed, it’s a UI.

    • @[email protected]
      1•8 months ago

      Also why. The. Hell. Are. People. Still. Using. Virtualbox? What is this? 2005? You’re already running a kernel with built in world tier type 1 virtualization.

      Honestly, for me, it’s probably just momentum at this point. I’ve been using Virtualbox for at least 15, maybe 20 years now. I don’t use it much anymore with how good docker, etc. have become. Any recommendation on what I should be using instead?

      • @[email protected]
        13•8 months ago

        Qemu, which is the standard KVM front end. Also does emulation when you need other architectures (great for prepping Pi images for example). If you need a UI virt-manager is a UI for libvirt that supports Qemu and lxc (even remotely through ssh). It’s been around since 2009.

    • @[email protected]English
      1•8 months ago

      Is there an easy way to run Android in a VM?

      It’s been a long time since I looked, but I never had great success. The only AMD64 builds I could find were ancient. Getting apps installed was difficult. And my understanding (correct me if I’m wrong) is that Waydroid delivers apps in windows without a whole Android UI around them.

      The best option I found was using the Android Studio simulator.

          • @Landless2029
            1•8 months ago

            I’m trying to run blissos now in hyperv with no luck.

            Did you make any progress?

            I’m trying to find a bluestacks alternative

            • @[email protected]English
              1•8 months ago

              Not really. I tried in AQEMU and also VirtualBox. I got the installer to run, but I never got it to boot into a GUI, either in the LiveCD or installation. Not sure what I’m doing wrong. Maybe I should try the stable 12L build instead of 13.

              • @Landless2029
                1•8 months ago

                For now I tried Google play games beta. It’s a type 1 vm instance instead of bluestacks being type 2.

                Super easy to setup. At least Google is the one spying on me instead of china.

            • Quack Doc
              1•7 months ago

              currently hyper-v has no graphics, qemu reccomended but hyperv should work if you force sofware rendering for gpu