Waydroid in a VM

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

wildbus8979 ,

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.

MonkderDritte ,

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?

wildbus8979 ,

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.

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