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Waydroid in a VM (lemmy.today)

submitted 8 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (2 children)

I have waydroid working great in the latest Mint. You need Weston so Waydroid has a Wayland to connect to.

e: or use the experimental Wayland in 21.3 but it's not ready for daily driving

[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago

Here's the script I use to start and stop Waydroid:

#!/bin/bash
PID=$(pgrep "weston")
if [ "$?" -eq "0" ]; then
    waydroid session stop
    kill $PID
    exit
fi
weston --width=1920 --height=1080 --socket=wayland-1 &>/dev/null &
sleep 2
WAYLAND_DISPLAY=wayland-1 XDG_SESSION_TYPE=wayland waydroid show-full-ui

Change the resolution to whatever you need it to be. Run it once to start, again to stop. It just lives on my desktop.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I thought about 21.3 but don't want to use something experimental. What is Weston? It's good to hear that it works on Mint

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Weston is basically Wayland within an X11 app. You can run Wayland stuff with it but it'll be constrained to that window.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I'll check that out!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Check out the Waydroid script I posted, it'll help you with figuring out how to run Wayland programs.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

I will. Thank you very much