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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] 23 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (3 children)

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 points 8 months ago (2 children)

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 points 8 months ago* (last edited 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] 2 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

use the terminal qemu noob (/s)

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

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 points 8 months ago* (last edited 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] 1 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago (1 children)

https://blissos.org/

But yeah you won't get rootless windows obviously. But OP wasn't going to either running. VM to get waydroid working

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

Thanks for the link! Latest version is based on Android 13, which is not bad at all.

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

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] 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 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.