SteamOS on Android via Termux, VNC and Qemu

Question

Could someone help me setting up adding the steam deck recovery image via the Qemu system on my android phone via Termux

I am using the link below and the command below.

But I need some help setting up the virtual hard disk and getting the image to to work.

I am trying to get some more of my CPU cores to go to speed the process up.

I was thinking about loading the IMG on to say VMware creating the OS itself onto a VMDK file and then just use that to boot the VM.

But anyhow any advice, would be really really awesome.

I downloaded the ISO from

https://www.mediafire.com/file/5cve5uvz75ylgyf/SteamOS_ISO_File_by_Techrechard.com.iso/file

Qemu emulator termux commands

Created the disk

qemu-img create -f vmdk ./home/storage/downloads/steamOS/steamOSx.vmdk 64G

Launched the image as a VNC with 4GB ram and the ISO with EFI Bios boot

qemu-system-x86_64 -cpu qemu64 -m 4096 -vnc 127.0.0.1:2 -hdd ./home/storage/downloads/steamOS/steamOSx.vmdk -bios ./usr/share/OVMF/OVMF_CODE.fd

Reference:

https://blogs.igalia.com/berto/2022/07/05/running-the-steam-decks-os-in-a-virtual-machine-using-qemu/

Answer 1

I would suggest to use Winulator or Box86 in Termux. I have found in personal experience that QEMU is very slow to load, slow after loading, and very memory hungry.