I haven’t tested other suggested solutions (such as tweaking the settings of the virtual device), but at least this one did it for me. 👉 Killing docker will let you run the Android Emulator without any problems. HAX is working and emulator runs in fast virt mode.įailed to sync HAX vcpu contextInternal error: Initial hax sync failedĪha, a clue! One Google Search Coupon later it turns out the thing preventing the emulator from running was that other thing using vcpu’s, namely docker. 2 An external USB flash drive with a storage capacity of 16GB or more, unless you're using a Mac that doesn't need a flash drive to install Windows. When I switched to launching the Android Emulator from the Command Line instead, I finally got to see an error message: $ cd $(dirname $(which emulator)) &. If you have an iMac Pro or Mac Pro with 128GB of memory (RAM) or more, your startup disk needs at least as much free storage space as your Mac has memory. Every time I launched it from Android Studio it would start, but then – without any errors or warnings – close all by itself.
On a recent project I was working on, I wasn’t able to start the Android Emulator/Simulator anymore from within Android Studio.
Make sure you’re running the latest version of Android Studio UPDATE 2017.08.03: This should be fixed with the release of HAXM 6.1.1.
