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

  • lemmyreader@lemmy.ml
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    8 months ago

    I have WayDroid running here with Arch Linux and GNOME without VirtualBox or QEMU. For Arch it requires the zen kernel, or compiling the kernel yourself. https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Waydroid In the past I had no luck with WayDroid on I think Ubuntu, Debian and what not.