waydroid

[Hackerman]

Has anyone installed Waydroid on Armbian 26.2.4? Are there any manual for this?

[Дмитрий Соловьев]

Hi. I've also been having issues with my Orange Pi 5. It seems the problem is that the module was removed from the kernel, but I haven't looked into it in detail yet. The folks at NixOS seem to have solved this issue
https://github.com/waydroid/waydroid/issues/2094

 

I have this specific problem

waydroid show-full-ui
[22:49:14] Starting waydroid session
[22:49:14] RuntimeError: Command failed: % /usr/lib/waydroid/data/scripts/waydroid-net.sh start
vnic is waydroid0
sudo /usr/lib/waydroid/data/scripts/waydroid-net.sh start
modprobe: FATAL: Module ip_tables not found in directory /lib/modules/6.18.10-current-rockchip64
iptables v1.8.11 (legacy): can't initialize iptables table `filter': Table does not exist (do you need to insmod?)
Perhaps iptables or your kernel needs to be upgraded.
Failed to setup waydroid-net.

 

My system

user@orangepi5:~$ uname -a
Linux orangepi5 6.18.10-current-rockchip64 #2 SMP PREEMPT Wed Feb 11 12:42:01 UTC 2026 aarch64 GNU/Linux

I'm not a network expert, so I hope someone can help.
Are you having the same problem?

[LivingLinux]

Installing Waydroid should be no problem, but you might have to activate psi.

 

Waydroid installation. https://docs.waydro.id/usage/install-on-desktops
 

sudo apt install curl ca-certificates -y
curl -s https://repo.waydro.id | sudo bash
sudo apt update
sudo apt install waydroid -y

 

Reboot and start Waydroid. Preferably from the command line, as you will see the output directly.

 

After downloading the image, it tries to start.

If you get the error "Service manager /dev/binder has died", it probably means you have to activate psi.

See more details here: https://github.com/waydroid/waydroid/issues/136

 

TL;DR

 

Activate psi.

sudo nano /etc/default/grub

 

Add psi=1, so the line will look like this:

GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX="psi=1"

 

Update grub.

sudo update-grub

 

Reboot. This is a quick test to see if psi is active. It should show some numbers.

cat /proc/pressure/cpu

 

Waydroid should work now. Unless you run into a different issue than I did.