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

  • Landless2029@lemmy.world
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    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

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      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.

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        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.

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      8 months ago

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