Anbox is not starting

I have Anbox in my system but not able to get a google play app into it to play. When I click on Anbox to open it just says Starting... then closes after a while. Here is what I have in my system.

root@terry-ThinkPad-T530:/home/terry# snap info anbox
name: anbox
summary: Android in a Box
publisher: Simon Fels (morphis)
store-url:
contact:
license: unset
description: | Runtime for Android applications which runs a full Android system in a container using Linux namespaces (user, ipc, net, mount) to separate the Android system fully from the host. You can find further details in our documentation at
commands: - anbox - anbox.android-settings - anbox.appmgr - anbox.collect-bug-info - anbox.shell
services: anbox.container-manager: simple, enabled, active
snap-id: Nr9K6UJaIOD8wHpDEQl16nabFFt9LLEQ
tracking: latest/beta
refresh-date: today at 12:04 CST
channels: latest/stable: – latest/candidate: – latest/beta: 4-56c25f1 2020-01-02 (186) 391MB devmode latest/edge: 4+gitr6c10125 2020-11-30 (206) 410MB devmode
installed: 4-56c25f1 (186) 391MB devmode
root@terry-ThinkPad-T530:/home/terry# wget 

2 Answers

Add the following to /etc/initramfs-tools/modules:

binder_linux
ashmem_linux

...followed by sudo update-initramfs -u.

For me, at first it didn't start but after 1 or 2 reboots it did.

You can also try export EGL_PLATFORM=x11 before starting anbox, but it seems the environment variable is added automatically so it's not needed.

First make sure that necessary kernel modules are enabled

ls -1 /dev/{ashmem,binder}

If not, enable it using

$ sudo modprobe ashmem_linux
$ sudo modprobe binder_linux

also make sure android image is available under /var/lib/anbox/ , if it's not present, download and move it to there ( rename the image file to android.img). You can download the latest image file from : Android image file

and move it using $ sudo mv ~/Downloads/android_amd64.img /var/lib/anbox/android.img

After that restart the service $ sudo service anbox-container-manager restart

Now you will be able to open the anbox.My Anbox setup in Debian 11