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Waydroid in a VM
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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.
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?
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.
use the terminal qemu noob (/s)
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.
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
Thanks for the link! Latest version is based on Android 13, which is not bad at all.
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
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.
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.
currently hyper-v has no graphics, qemu reccomended but hyperv should work if you force sofware rendering for gpu
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?
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.