Hello. > I would like to use QEMU to run an Android game on NetBSD. Is it possible ?
I'm working on the porting of some Android structures,like binder, that will make it possible to run a decent version of Android on top of FreeBSD without using qemu or bhyve. I will use this on the phablet that I'm building,to make it possible to run some dedicated Android applications on top of it. The development is slow,because this is a long time project that I'm doing with the assistance of Claude. I'm a 50 years old man retired from work,so I'm always short on money and probably my projects will not be completed after my death. I have a lot of very nice projects. I really want to finish some of them. The only chance I have is to find someone who likes them and can share his/her Claude tokens to see them completed. For now I've improved the bhyve acceleration for qemu on the X86-X64 / FreeBSD machines. A nice experiment could be to try to virtualize Android with bhyve/qemu on the PC. Doing this using bhyve is not possible. But the usage of qemu is another story. On Wed, Jun 3, 2026 at 1:08 PM Greg Troxel <[email protected]> wrote: > Jose Luis Rodriguez Garcia <[email protected]> writes: > > > I would like to use QEMU for run a Android game on NetBSD. Is it > possible? > > > > This game is not very demanding in performance. > > It might be, but I have not seen reports of anyone doing this. I am > not sure if qemu has support for particular phone models or the generic > phone that seems to be part of the android system emulator that's part > of the (partly proprietary) Android Studio. > > I would recommend trying Android Studio under Debian and then after you > understand better you could start to investigate running under NetBSD. > -- Mario.
