Is there an android emulator that runs inside a windows vm? The android studio emulator requires Intel HAXM and genymotion runs on virtualbox which does not support nested virtualisation.
It will certainly work even though I have not tried it yet. Since I run the ios virtual machine as well as the android on the macos virtual machine. View image:
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I'm kind of new in the world of developing Android.
I installed Android studio 2.1.3 on my Dell, core i5, 8 GM memory, Windows 10 (x64 machine) HAXM is enabled and running.
I created a virtual device (Nexus 4 or Nexus s), but they work very very slow and almost not responding.
I found a workaround to work with other emulator (there it works smoothly)
I installed in other machine (Windows 7 x64, and there all works OK.
What can I do to improve the performance of the Android virtual device in Android Studio?
I've faced very similar issue in Windows 10 machine (16gb ram, i5 6th generation). I've tried multiple options in Android Studio and nothing work until I've
install Windows Hypervisor Platform in control panel (look it up in
start menu)
In general android simulator is slow, although you can try to allocate it more virtual memory in settings.
Recommended: Try using another simulator Genymotion
Your best bet would be Genymotion. It's way faster than Android's native virtual devices.
I've been struggling to have my Xamarin project running in an Azure VM with Visual Studio 2015 and Xamarin. The error it gives me is:
The Virtual Machine Management Service failed to start the virtual machine 'VS Emulator 5-inch KitKat (4.4) XXHDPI Phone.dawud' because one of the Hyper-V components is not running (Virtual machine ID <id_number>.
I have read I need to enable nested virtualization in Hyper-V, but as this is an Azure machine I don't think I can do it.
Do you know what else I can do?
Thanks.
I have a question that looks quite complicated. I need to setup a complete development environment for Android in a virtual machine. I mean, create a virtual machine (player is Virtualbox last version) with Windows 8.1 as guest os.
In this vm, I installed Android Studio which works quite well. My problem is in running any android virtual device. I know I can't run x86 based emulator because I can't disable hyper-v, but I read somewhere that is should be possible to run arm based emulator (even if they are very slower). In fact, I can create and start an emulator, but it stuck with a blank screen, nothing happens and, of course, I can't deploy any application.
My question is:
1. Is it possible to run an AVD in a virtual machine?
2. My virtual machine has a memory of 2GB, maybe this isn't enough for running the AVD?
Thank you in advance
Im using Xamarin in VS2015 on windows 10 to build a cross platform app.
And im using VmWare's VMPlayer to run a virtual instance of OS X to run the iOS emulator. VmPlayer doesn't work with Hyper-V turned ON and the Android Emulator doesnt work with Hyper-V turned OFF.
I was wondering if there is a work around that will allow both the VMplayer and the Android emulator to run at the same time without having to go back and forth turning Hyper-V on and off?
You can run the Visual Studio Android Emulator in vmWare (if you virtualize Windows):
The VM must have at least 2 CPUs assigned
Change the OS type of the VM to "Hyper-V (unsupported)” in the VM's general setting
This step was not required for me in vmWare 8: In Windows, edit the c:\program files (x86)\Microsoft XDE\10.0.10240.0\skus\android\xdesku.xml file and remove the following line from the file: GuestDisplayProvider=”VsEmulator.OpenGLGuestDisplay
If your Windows machine is a physical machine, you can run the VS Android Emulator directly there.
I installed Android Studio on Azure VM and installed all the prerequisites. When I try to run the emulator, I get the following error
When I try to install HAXM, I get the following error:
I checked that my Azure VM runs on AMD Processor. Is there any way, that I can make Android Emulator run on Azure Virtual Machine?
Something that requires virtualization isn't going to run in an Azure VM (which is already virtualized). Same thing with, say, WP8 emulator (see this question, with the same answer).
EDIT - As of mid-2017, there are now VMs that support nested virtualization (Dv3 and Ev3 series, for now). See this post for more information.
The Android emulator works with the following setup:
Azure VM: Windows 10 Enterprise N
Android Studio: 2.3.1
AVD Manager
Hardware: Phone -> Nexus 5X
System Image: Other Images -> Nougat 25 armeabi-v7a [Android 7.1.1]
Start the emulator and wait about 5-10 minutes for the process to complete.
Then run your Android app by attaching it to the running emulator.
Note that "Apply Changes" (lightning bolt icon) also works for small code changes.
If you set the CPU of the emulator to armeabi-v7a it will work (albeit very very slowly). Tested with Rev 25. I assume this works because it doesn't use virtualization, but rather CPU Emulation.
As of mid-2017, there are now VMs that support nested virtualization (Dv3 and Ev3 series, for now). Still, I couldn't run the Android virtual device(AVD) created in the android studio. But, below solution worked for me:
Check if Azure VM supports nested virtualization.
Enable hyper-v in VM as mentioned here 1.
Use Visual Studio Emulator. Visual studio emulator definitely works on azure VM.
Forget about enabling nested virtualization or else.
All you have to do is:
Disable Hyper-V
Install Mumu emulator.
And you'll see emulator working on your VM.