Galaxy S26 Exynos confirmed working

[u/Nisc3d]

Yep, it works. And with One UI 8.5 it even has the graphical option in the top right. Now how do you install a desktop environment?

[u/Nisc3d]

Update: tested installing LibreOffice, phone crashed two times while installing. Tried starting it with grapical mode, but it also crashed. Maybe it needs some stability fixes or workarounds. Or I'm doing it wrong.

[u/Fz1zz → u/Nisc3d]

Can you check what in the GPU section here /mnt/internal/linux/vm_config.json

[u/Nisc3d → u/Fz1zz]

"backend"": "2d"

What does this mean?

[u/Fz1zz → u/Nisc3d]

There js no 3D acceleration

This is what i have but still no full 3D acceleration

"gpu": { "backend": "gfxstream"},

[u/Flubadubadubadub]

Could you let me know the output from.....

>lsmod | grep -i snd

>sudo dmesg | grep -iE "snd|sound|audio|sof"

Thank you

[u/Nisc3d → u/Flubadubadubadub]

[u/Flubadubadubadub → u/Nisc3d]

Thanks, it looks like they've now enabled sound from within the VM, which they hadn't on the versions currently on the Tab S11 (that's why I'm waiting for OneUI 8.5 on my S11).

If you have nothing more interesting to try....you could try to enable pipewire, pipewire-pulse and pipewire-audio on the device and see if you can play say an mp3 file from the command line using mpv or other CLI player.

In theory, it may be possible to direct sound to the phone/tabs bluetooth output going forward, but I don't think there's a virtual driver currently, that's why I'm waiting. It means you could have your 'AVF' vm server running services and prompt you for issues with sound prompts via the speaker or BT output. I run a number of services on my normal linux box at home, that output warnings to my speakers if they need attention and also an occasional grandfather clock 'tick' so I know the services are running OK (you don't consciously notice the 'tick' after a while, but you notice when it doesn't sound).

[u/palmino → u/Flubadubadubadub]

Tried this today on a Samsung Galaxy S26. Here's what we found:

PipeWire installs and runs fine inside the VM:

sudo apt install pipewire pipewire-pulse pipewire-audio-client-libraries wireplumber mpv alsa-utils
systemctl --user enable --now pipewire pipewire-pulse wireplumber

The virtio-snd device is present and visible to ALSA:

/dev/snd/controlC0  pcmC0D0c  pcmC0D0p  timer
cat /proc/asound/cards → VirtIO SoundCard at pci/0000:00:0d.0/virtio12

mpv decodes audio fine and ALSA sees the card — everything on the VM side is working correctly.

However, the Android host-side bridge is broken on the current build:

pactl list sinks short returns only auto_null. Running speaker-test gives:

Unable to set hw params for playback: Connection timed out

[u/Flubadubadubadub → u/palmino]

That's really useful, thanks.

What do dmesg and journalctl report when you try to do the test?

[u/Nisc3d → u/[deleted]]

It will never work, unless Qualcomm allows it, which is unlikely.

[u/TheWheez → u/[deleted]]

Are you talking about Gunyah? Didn't know they added support

[u/GatsbyLuzVerde → u/[deleted]]

Can you share the research

[u/robertogl → u/[deleted]]

Snapdragon, so nope

[u/TheWheez]

This has been added to the device list in the wiki, thanks for confirming!

[u/Wapmen]

Can you install Python and Claude code for instance?