I’m trying to use Android Studio, but the virtual android doesn’t start because of KVM error. Tinkering around with another VM application I understood that it’s a location/permission issue (flatpak Gnome Boxes had the same issue, couldn’t load KVM, but Boxes installed via terminal worked and I could start a VM).

On the official Android Studio website they suggest extracting the tar.zip in /usr/local but the system doesn’t allow me to, so I extacted it on the desktop and the app runs, but I get a “/dev/kvm is not found” error, which should be because of the location I’m running Android Studio from.

So, should I just sudo force move the folder of Android Studio from desktop to /usr/local or is there a better way to do it?

PoP_OS just in case it can be useful to know.

Thanks in advance!

edit: fixed it by updating BIOS to latest Beta. Can’t believe it was a bug in the version I was running and no one else catched it, since Beta changelog didn’t mention it.