Emulator error This AVD s configuration is missing a kernel file

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This problem was discovered when I tried to run the Android emulator in Eclipse  Can t figure out what happened  I searched online for the solution  but it seemed to be vague and I don t understand clearly   I was following the steps to install the AVD according to the sites and I can t figure out what I missed  Please explain it to me in steps to follow

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I installed Android SDK manager and Android SDK yestoday  and I get this error too when I tried to run the Android emulator immediately  But  right now this error disappear  I think restarting your system when the SDK has installed may solve this problem

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Here s my story  Under  Actions  on the AVD manager  I viewed the details for the AVD which wasn t working  Scrolling down  I found the line   image sysdir 1  add-ons addon-google apis-google-16 images armeabi-v7a    I then navigated to this file at   C  Users XXXX AppData Local Android sdk add-ons addon-google apis-google-16 images armeabi-v7a   I found there was no kernel file  However  I did find a kernel file at   C  Users XXXX AppData Local Android sdk system-images android-16 default armeabi-v7a   So I copied it and pasted back into   C  Users XXXX AppData Local Android sdk add-ons addon-google apis-google-16 images armeabi-v7a   The AVD then worked

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If you know the kernel file is installed on your machine  then problem is getting emulator exe to find it   My fix was based on the post by user2789389  I could launch the AVD from the AVD Manager  but not from the command line   So  using AVD Manager  I selected the avd I wanted to run and clicked  Details    That showed me the path to the avd definition file   Within a folder of the same name  next to this  avd file  I found a config ini file   In the ini  I found the following line   image sysdir 1 system-images android-19 default armeabi-v7a    I looked in the folder C  Users XXXX android-sdks system-images android-19  and found that the image sysdir 1 path was invalid   I had to remove the  default  sub folder  thus changing it to the following   image sysdir 1 system-images android-19 armeabi-v7a    I saved the ini and tried again to launch the AVD  That fixed the problem

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Another reason you can get this error is that Eclipse can t find the correct file   Check out where Eclipse is looking for your SDK files   You can do this on the command line   Below is an example for the windows command prompt for an avd I created and named  SonyTabletS    c  Program Files  x86  Android android-sdk tools gt  emulator  SonyTabletS -verbose   The first line returned shows where eclipse is looking for the SDK files and will look something like   emulator  found ANDROID SDK ROOT  C  Program Files  x86  Android android-sdk   Make sure that location is correct   In my case  ANDROID SDK ROOT was initially set incorrectly to my home directory  This is because I set it that way by blindly following the Sony Tablet S SDK install instructions and adding an ANDROID SDK ROOT environment variable with the incorrect path

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Make sure that you also have configured properly an emulated device  Android Studio may come with one that shows up in the list of emulated devices but that is not set to work with the SDK version you are using    Try creating a new emulated device in the AVD Manager  Tools- Android AVD Manager  and selecting that as the target

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I fixed this problem just adding the Enviroment variable ANDROID SDK ROOT  in my case this was located at C  Users fera AppData Local Android sdk

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The  ARM EABI v7a System Image  must be available  Install it via the Android SDK manager    Another hint  see here  - with   Android SDK Tools rev 17 or higher Android 4 0 3  API Level 15  using SDK rev 3 and System Image rev 2  or higher    you are able to turn on GPU emulation to get a faster emulator    Note   As per you786 comment if you have previously created emulator then you need to recreate it  otherwise this will not work    Alternative 1 Intel provides the  Intel hardware accelerated execution manager   which is a VM based emulator for executing X86 images and which is also served by the Android SDK Manager  See a tutorial for the Intel emulator here  HAXM Speeds Up the Android Emulator  Roman Nurik posts here that the Intel emulator with Android 4 3 is  blazing fast    Alternative 2 In the comments of the post above you can find a reference to Genymotion which claims to be the  fastest Android emulator for app testing and presentation   Genymotion runs on VirtualBox  See also their site on Google   this post from Cyril Mottier and this guide on reddit   Alternative 3 In XDA-Forums I read about MEmu - Most Powerful Android Emulator for PC  Better Than Bluestacks  You can find the emulator here  This brings me to      Alternative 4     this XDA-Forum entry  How to use THE FAST  BlueStack as your alternate Android development emulator  You can find the emulator here

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If you are getting this error while trying to create an emulator for Android 11 or Android 10   API 30   make sure that you update emulator to the latest  You can do this from Tools - gt  SDK Manager - gt  SDK Tools

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I tried what ChrLipp suggested  but that wasn t the problem  as the image was already installed  What I did was run   android avd   to start the emulator manually  Then I stopped the emulator  and form that point on the  cca emulate android   app started working  without the  missing a kernel file  error

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See my answer for the Android Studio environment  Mac and    PANIC  Missing emulator engine program for  arm  CPU        To solve this problem  you need to specify the -kernel path manually  i e       Library Android sdk emulator emulator   Galaxy Nexus Jelly Bean API 16 -kernel   Library Android sdk system-images android-16 default armeabi-v7a kernel-qemu   Remember to change the emulator name Galaxy Nexus Jelly Bean API 16 to your own emulator name    Below command is to check the emulators available for command line        Library Android sdk emulator emulator -list-avds   And also  ensure that your emulator path is correct  i e  the one located at   Library Android sdk emulator

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For me Updating the SDK Tools fixed the errors

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A singular intelligent thought occurred to me after a long day of repair rebuild upgrades of the SDK NDK  amp  JDK  The environment vars need examined  as the fix for my AVD  GalaxyS3  missing kernel file was to expand the system-images reference to absolute   image sysdir 1 C  Android sdk system-images android-19 armeabi-v7a   Adding the  C     sdk   to the  image sysdir 1   entry in the  workspace  android avd GalaxyS3 avd config ini file solved the problem  for now

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I had the same problem  In my case it turned out I had installed another version of the sdk alongside the version provided by Android Studio  Changing my ANDROID SDK ROOT environment variable to the original value fixed it for me

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Following the accepted answer by ChrLipp using Android Studio 1 2 2 in Ubuntu 14 04    Install  ARM EABI v7a System Image  package from Android SDK manager  Delete the non functional Virtual Device  Add a new device with Application Binary Interface ABI  as armeabi-v7a  Boot into the new device     This worked for me  Try rebooting your system if it is not working for you

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Open AVD Manager in Administrator mode Select VM and click edit  click OK Start VM   Editor s note  By administrator mode  he meant Right-click   Run as administrator on windows platforms

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Update the following commands in command prompt in windows   i  android update sdk --no-ui --all     It update  your SDK packages and it takes 3 minutes  ii  android update sdk --no-ui --filter platform-tools tools    It updates the platform tools and its packages  iii  android update sdk --no-ui --all --filter extra-android-m2repository     Those who are working with maven project update this to support with latest support design library which will include extra maven android maven Repository   1 In the command prompt it asks you for Y N  click on the Y then it proceeds with the installation   2  It updates all Kernel-qemu files and qt5 dll commands  so that the Emulator works fine without any issues

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I solved this by updating SDK Tools and Platform-tools in the Android SDK Manager to newest version

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Just wanted to share my experience on this problem  Consulting each of the answers here  it didn t match my situation  Having a system image for Android API 22 causes this error and the weird thing is that all of the environment variables pointing to the correct directories  It doesn t make sense    BuvinJ answer had shed some light into the problem  I did check on the path describe on his answer and yes my copy of system image resides under the subfolder default when I look on the user directory  on Windows    The weird thing is  there is also an android-sdk folder in the ANDROID SDK ROOT so I thought maybe Eclipse is looking there  Digging through the subfolders I figured out that the directory looks like this   android-sdk-windows system-images android-22 google apis armeabi-v7a   This directory resides on the ANDROID SDK ROOT  There is also another one residing at the user directory user XXXX android-sdk     Eclipse is expecting it here   android-sdk-windows system-images android-22 default armeabi-v7a   Just changed the directory as such and it works now

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There was a file called kernel-ranchu   I renamed it to kernel-qemu  This solved my problem  Thank you

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In my own case  I had multiple errors most of which were about mis-configured ANDROID SDK ROOT  at the end of the day  one thing seemed to fix the whole thing   Follow the following process   After Creating the A new Emulator Device on AVD  go to the Actions menu and click on the arrow pointing downwards as shown below     Click on Show on Disk  Edit Config ini  Look for image sysdir 1  it should have a value like this     image sysdir 1 system-images android-28 google apis playstore x86    Your own value might be different  Now  fix in the path of the Android Sdk to make a complete path   image sysdir 1   C  androidsdk  system-images android-28 google apis playstore x86   If you noticed  the android sdk path shown above is different from the normal default android sdk  I had to move it to C  androidsdk to avoid NDK issues as my main USER HOME on my PC has whitespaces which NDK might not support   NOTE  Moving the SDK directory away from its default directory is usually the cause of these errors AVD emulator gives  most especially as regarding broken and misconfigured path  The fix I provided above is a quick fix  you may have to do that each time you create a new device on AVD Emulator    This fix should also work when working on CMD with cordova

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My story  Eclipse wanted a file called  kernel-ranchu  in the system image folder    path to android-sdk-macosx system-images android-25 google apis arm64-v8a        emulator  ERROR  This AVD s configuration is missing a kernel file    Please ensure the file  kernel-ranchu  is in the same location as your   system image       emulator  ERROR  ANDROID SDK ROOT is undefined   In that system image folder there was a file called  kernel-qemu   I just renamed it as  kernel-ranchu  and it worked

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I updated my android SDK to the latest version  API 19   When I tried to run the emulator with phonegap 3  the build was successful but it ran the same issue   In the AVD manager there was an existent device  nevertheless  its parameters were all unknown  Surely this occurs because I uninstalled the old sdk version  API 17  that returns a second error while attempting to remove the device  With the message   device is  already running   To solve the issue  I went to the AVD s location in    android avd  and removed manually the device directory avd and device ini file  Finally  in the the device manager I created a new AVD provided by the newest API   This allowed phonegap to build and run the emulator succesfully  I hope this helps  Good day

[android] Emulator error: This AVD's configuration is missing a kernel file

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