Genymotion - does not work with QEMU

[rastarr]

Describe the bug

I used Genymotion for a long time on macOS but with Virtualbox.
I switch to Linux/nixOS about 5 months ago and was pleasantly surprised to read Genymotion now supported the QEMU engine.

Alas, myself and a few other of my friends were never able to get Genymotion to work using QEMU, which is the preferred Hypervisor.

I've tried to source some help at https://discourse.nixos.org/t/anyone-got-waydroid-or-genymotion-working/44397/12 but to no avail.

Steps To Reproduce

Steps to reproduce the behavior:

1. Have a running working QEMU installation. Presumably with at least 1 functional VM too
2. Install Genymotion
3. Setup Genymotion, ensure QEMU is selected as the Hypervisor
4. Select a random Android device, add it and run it.
5. You'll first get a 'can't start virtual device' error
6. Manually trying to start the Android device again gives a 'Another QEMU process appears to be using the same resources' error

Expected behavior

I'd expect Genymotion to start the Android device using QEMU, naturally

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@puffnfresh

Metadata

Please run nix-shell -p nix-info --run "nix-info -m" and paste the result.

``` - system: "x86_64-linux"

• host os: Linux 6.7.12, NixOS, 24.05 (Uakari), 24.05.20240403.fd281bd
• multi-user?: yes
• sandbox: yes
• version: nix-env (Nix) 2.18.2
• nixpkgs: /nix/store/n2g5cqwv8qf5p6vjxny6pg3blbdij12k-source

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![no-start](https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/assets/2160922/1c2be4d3-5103-4b3b-ace8-57e4a96a6cc8)
![geny-qemu](https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/assets/2160922/09821288-f74b-47fe-bb67-661cec3c3df6)
[genymotion-player.log](https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/files/15182367/genymotion-player.log)
[genymotion.log](https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/files/15182368/genymotion.log)
[qemu.log](https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/files/15182369/qemu.log)

[nixos-discourse]

This issue has been mentioned on NixOS Discourse. There might be relevant details there:

https://discourse.nixos.org/t/anyone-got-waydroid-or-genymotion-working/44397/13

[rastarr]

genymotion-player.log
genymotion.log
qemu.log

[wegank]

Duplicate of #226867. Does the workaround in #226867 (comment) work for you?

[rastarr]

@wegank I'm not really sure this is a duplicate but that's up to you.
I'm not a coder so had no idea what to do with that old 'work-around' either. I had a colleague who kindly looked at it, spent some time, and turned it in to a flake which can be found at https://github.com/fillon/nix-genymotion

And now the broken Genymotion functions great with QEMU.

Perhaps the flake code can help in fixing the package.
Thanks for the pointer to the old work-around