{
    "name": "Waydroid",
    "slug": "waydroid-vm",
    "categories": [
        20,
        3
    ],
    "date_created": "2026-05-26",
    "type": "vm",
    "updateable": false,
    "privileged": false,
    "interface_port": null,
    "documentation": "https://docs.waydro.id/",
    "website": "https://waydro.id/",
    "logo": "https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/gh/selfhst/icons@main/webp/waydroid.webp",
    "description": "Waydroid is a container-based approach to boot a full Android system on a regular GNU/Linux system. It uses Linux namespaces (LXC) to run Android in a container and bridges the Wayland compositor to display Android apps natively. This VM script creates a KVM virtual machine with Ubuntu 24.04 or Debian 13 as the base OS, ready for Waydroid installation.",
    "install_methods": [
        {
            "type": "default",
            "script": "vm/waydroid-vm.sh",
            "config_path": "",
            "resources": {
                "cpu": 4,
                "ram": 4096,
                "hdd": 20,
                "os": null,
                "version": null
            }
        }
    ],
    "default_credentials": {
        "username": "ubuntu",
        "password": null
    },
    "notes": [
        {
            "text": "The OS can be selected during setup: Ubuntu 24.04 LTS or Debian 13 (Trixie). The default user is 'ubuntu' for Ubuntu and 'debian' for Debian.",
            "type": "info"
        },
        {
            "text": "Waydroid + Weston (Wayland compositor) are pre-installed. After first boot run: sudo waydroid init && sudo systemctl start waydroid-container. Then start the UI with: weston --backend=headless & && WAYLAND_DISPLAY=wayland-0 waydroid show-full-ui",
            "type": "info"
        },
        {
            "text": "Waydroid requires a running Wayland compositor. For headless setups install 'weston'. GPU acceleration requires VirtIO GPU or GPU passthrough.",
            "type": "info"
        },
        {
            "text": "Enable Cloud-Init during setup to configure SSH keys and network automatically.",
            "type": "info"
        }
    ]
}