Trouble running GrapheneOS on emulator

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Hi everyone,

I’m new to this and trying to get GrapheneOS running on an emulator. I’ve successfully built it using:
lunch sdk_phone64_x86_64-cur-userdebug

But when I run the emulator, it opens the default Android OS instead of GrapheneOS.

I’m a bit confused about how to run my GrapheneOS build in the emulator. I want to get it working on the emulator first before trying it on a real device. Any guidance would be really appreciated!

Thanks in advance!

de0u

2230134 How are you running the emulator?

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de0u

I’m running the emulator with:
emulator -avd sdk_phone64_x86_64
an AVD I created earlier

But it still boots into the standard AOSP system rather than the GrapheneOS build I compiled. Could you clarify how I should point the emulator to actually use the GrapheneOS images I built (system.img, vendor.img, etc.)?

Appreciate your help!

de0u

2230134 I am actually not that kind of Android Studio expert (yet?). But I suspect you will need to create a different AVD. And, with luck, perhaps somebody who knows how to do it will chime in.

When I ran GrapheneOS via the emulator (which I haven't done for a couple of years), I think I ran it from the build directory without the "-avd" flag.

2230134

Yes, I initially tried running just :
emulator
as mentioned in the documentation, but it gives me a “No AVD specified” error.

2230134

@de0u

Thanks for replying. I managed to solve the issue. I was running the emulator from my laptop’s CMD via SSH into the VM, which ended up launching the default stock emulator. When I ran it directly from the VM terminal instead, it worked correctly.

de0u

2230134 Thanks for reporting back! I'm glad you found a solution.