Recommended solution for Android emulation?

[leyvi]

Waydroid looks good, except I don't think it can run ARM apks. What other options are there?

[Yamakuzure]

Just use waydroid with libhoudini installed.

[Zucca]

Just wait a minute...
Aren't apks jit compiled?
It shouldn't matter if you have amd64 or arm64 underneath?

Hm... I wonder if my M2 MacBook Air could have an advantage running waydroid?

[papu]

Waydroid looks good, except I don't think it can run ARM apks. What other options are there?

I installed androidx86 with qemu,is launched with ...

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#!/bin/bash
qemu-system-x86_64 \
        -name "MV - Android" \
        -cpu host,kvm=off -machine type=pc,accel=kvm \
        -smp 2 -m 6G \
        -device virtio-vga-gl,blob=true,venus=true,hostmem=4G -display sdl,gl=on \
        -audiodev pipewire,id=android0\
        -device intel-hda -device hda-duplex,audiodev=android0 \
        -device virtio-tablet-pci  -device virtio-keyboard-pci -device virtio-net-pci \
        -hda /mnt/gentoo-plus/android.img \
        $@

[Zucca]

The part:

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-cpu host,kvm=off -machine type=pc,accel=kvm

... looks odd. KVM off and on?

[papu]

The part:

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-cpu host,kvm=off -machine type=pc,accel=kvm

... looks odd. KVM off and on?

-machine accel=kvm
This turns ON the actual Kernel-based Virtual Machine hypervisor. It tells QEMU to use your CPU's hardware virtualization features (VT-x/SVM). Without this, the VM would run in software emulation mode and be extremely slow.

-cpu host,kvm=off
This is a CPU feature flag. It does NOT disable the acceleration. Instead, it hides the CPUID signature that normally announces "I am a KVM Virtual Machine" to the guest OS

[Zucca]

-cpu host,kvm=off
This is a CPU feature flag. It does NOT disable the acceleration. Instead, it hides the CPUID signature that normally announces "I am a KVM Virtual Machine" to the guest OS

Ah. Thanks. :) Didn't knew that option.