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

  • @GenderNeutralBroEnglish
    1•2 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.

      • @GenderNeutralBroEnglish
        2•2 months ago

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

        • @Landless2029@lemmy.world
          1•2 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

          • @GenderNeutralBroEnglish
            1•2 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@lemmy.world
              1•2 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•2 months ago

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