Emulator ERROR x86 emulation currently requires hardware acceleration

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I tried to run my Hello World application in Android Studio  I got the following error   Emulator  ERROR  x86 emulation currently requires hardware acceleration  Please ensure Intel HAXM is properly installed and usable  CPU acceleration status  HAX kernel module is not installed   Can you tell me what I can do with the error

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edit  The Android developer page has been updated with an excellent guide to get an emulator up and running    edit  Install the Intel x86 Emulator Accelerator using the Android SDK Manager  If you have Android Studio installed  you can start the SDK manager via Tools - gt  Android - gt  SDK Manager  The Android SDK Manager does not actually install HAXM  it just downloads it  In the top of the Android SDK manager window  you can find where the installer is located on your PC  Please open the subfolder extras intel Hardware Accelerated Execution Manager  and run the installer manually  intelhaxm-android exe  To use the intel HAXM  you need to have a CPU with virtualization support   Before attempting to use this type of acceleration  you should first determine if your development system   s CPU supports one of the following virtualization extensions technologies   Intel Virtualization Technology  VT  VT-x  vmx  extensions AMD Virtualization  AMD-V  SVM  extensions  only supported for Linux     edit  As of Nov 27  2019  Google has released an emulator for AMD CPUs    edit  If your CPU does not have virtualization support  you could use an ARM emulator instead   You can edit an existing  or add a new Virtual Device in the Android Virtual device Manager  and change CPU ABI to ARM  If that option is not available  you may need to change the target API of the Virtual Device  or download an ARM system image for the API version you want using the Android SDK manager

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I experienced the same issue  but after turning off Hyper-V and enabling VT-x on my BIOS I still couldn t install the intelhaxm-android exe program    To fix my issue I had to turn off Windows defender Memory integrity    check here for steps -  https   github com intel haxm issues 105

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As per this response  the complete steps are   1  Open SDK Manager  In Android Studio  go to Tools   Android   SDK Manager  and Download Intel x86 Emulator Accelerator  HAXM installer  if you haven t     2  Now go to your SDK directory C  users  USERNAME  AppData Local Android sdk extras intel Hardware Accelerated Execution Manager  and run the file named intelhaxm-android exe      In case you get an error like  Intel virtualization technology  vt vt-x  is not enabled   Go to your BIOS settings and enable Hardware Virtualization    3  Restart Android Studio and then try to start the AVD again   It might take a minute or 2 to show the emulator window

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I had the same issue even when hardware acceleration installed  My solutions was uninstalling and reinstalling it using SDK Manager  Make sure you restart the Android studio after then

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On Mac  the Android SDK gets installed at   Users username Library Android sdk   therefore  you will need to run the script as sudo  as follows   sudo sh  Users username Library Android sdk extras intel Hardware Accelerated Execution Manager silent install sh  If all goes well  the script prints the message   Silent installation Pass    Then  restart Android Studio and run your app with the desired AVD

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If you recently installed Docker on Windows OS  you need to turn off the Hyper-V feature  See the top answer of VT Not Supported when Installing HAXM

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A more detailed answer for dummies like me    Open the SDK manager  Select the SDK Tools tab   Download     Make sure that intel x86 Emulator Accelerator  HAXM  is downloaded     Install     Now that HAXM is downloaded  make sure it is installed  In the SDK window it will show you where the SDK is located on your computer   Click tap 3 times quickly to highlight this text and copy the folder location  Open the file explorer and paste in the file location  From here you can search    hax    to find the folder location for HAXM stuff  Once a file comes up in the search results  right click and select    open file location     For me the location was C  Users Datu1 AppData Local Android Sdk extras intel Hardware Accelerated Execution Manager   Find the file intelhaxm-android exe and open run it   Follow the instructions when it runs  You may wish to run haxm check as an administrator  it   s in this same folder   but it may or may not work for you  The surefire way to tell if you can run hardware acceleration and if it   s enabled is to go to your computer   s bios settings from the startup menu  BIOS settings     Make sure hardware acceleration is enabled in your BIOS settings  The way to do this may vary a bit from system to system  You may need to press f10 or esc on startup  But with most  updated  Windows 10 computers you can access the BIOS settings by doing the following  type    advanced startup    in the Windows search bar  click on    change advanced startup uptions     when it comes up  Click    Restart now     After your computer restarts click on Troubleshoot   Click advanced options  firmware settings  then restart to change EUFI firmware settings  Wait for the restart then select the menu option for bios settings  With Intel processors the steps will be as follows or similar   Press the right arrow to go to the Configuration tab  Arrow down to Intel Virtual Virtualizaion Technology and turn it on  should say Enabled    Exit and save changes  If Virtual Technology was previously disabled in your bios settings You will need to run the intelhaxm-android exe file now to install haxm   Try restarting Android Studio and running your emulator again  If it   s still not working  restart your computer and try again  it should work    NOTE  if you have Windows Hyper-V turned on this will cause you to not be able to run haxm  If you are having an issue with Hyper-V  make sure it is turned off in your settings  search in the Windows bar for    hyper     the search result should take you to    Turn Windows features on or off     Then make sure all the Hyper-V boxes are unchecked

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You should install the intel hardware acceleration first on sdk manager than you can start to create your virtual device on AVD manager

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One more possible reason  you installed HAXM and then updated BIOS settings by disabling virtualization  Or  updated BIOS version  Please check BIOS settings again  and be sure virtualization enabled

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Windows Users Only  This is a bit late but just figured that some answers are to go to the bios settings but for me  I was able to resolve this by just disabling the hyper-v feature  We do this by following these steps

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Enable virtualization Technology  This is worked in my case  Restart Computer Continuously press Esc and then F10 to enter BIOS setup configuration Check Virtualization technology  My PC is HP Zbook 1  Boot the unit to BIOS  Reboot the unit and keep tapping on F10     Navigate to Advanced Device or System Configuration  Click on the check box Virtualization Technology  VTx  and Virtualization         Technology for Directed I O  VTd  Save changes and Exit

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This steps worked on Mint 17 2 Rafaela    Open a terminal and input this  sudo apt-get install qemu-kvm Restart your pc and enable virtualization technology on your BIOS setup In terminal again  insert this  sudo kvm-ok

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I wasted too much time on this  I find that the AVAST is the issue    If you have AVAST installed in you system  you have to      Go to settings tab --  troubleshooting  then you should UNCHECK the    enable hardware-assisted virtualization    Restart your PC  the install the intelhaxm-android exe if it is not installed  You can find it       C  Users  YOURUSERNAME  AppData Local Android sdk extras intel Hardware Accelerated Execution Manager

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For me the following solution worked   1  Going to BIOS setting and enabling Virtualization

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If you are using an AMD CPU  AMD Virtualization  CPUs such as Ryzen  is now officially supported  Make sure you have virtualization switched on in the BIOS   In  Turn Windows Features On or Off   you can find it through Windows Search   you ll need to enable   Windows Hypervisor Platform on Windows 10 17134 1  1803  April 2018 update or newer  commonly not mentioned in articles  Hyper-V   Once you restart and start up the emulator  an x86 build   it should start booting up without the mentioned error

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I had the same issue  In my case I found two issues causing the problem   I had Hyper-V running  I think if any Virtualization programs running you need to uninstall I was running under Standard Account   Not Administrator

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Simple Solution    Open Android SDK manager  on top side you can see the  Android SDK Location  go to that location and follow this path       extras intel Hardware Accelerated Execution Manager   here you will get  intelhaxm-android exe  install this setup

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Right click on your my computer icon and the CPU will be listed on the properties page  Or open device manager and look at the CPU  It must be an Intel processor that supports VT and NX bit  XD  - you can check your CPU   at http   ark intel com  Also make sure hyperV off bcdedit  set hypervisorlaunchtype off  XD bit is on bcdedit  set nx AlwaysOn  Use the installer from https   software intel com en-us android articles intel-hardware-accelerated-execution-manager  If you re using Avast  disable  Enable hardware-assisted virtualization  under  Settings   Troubleshooting  Restart the PC and try to run the HAXM installation again

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I already had HAXM installed  but it was an older version  Then I updated from SDK manager  then emulator worked

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This answer works for latest update on Windows 10 version 1709  Not tried with other version  But i hope it ll work  I also ran into similar issue in my windows 10 system  I disabled Hyper-V and I tried all the answers posted here  But after that also i faced the same issue  So after lot of try  made it work using an documentation available in haxm manual  The document menntioned to use a tool named Device Guard and Credential Guard hardware readiness tool provided by Microsoft to disable Hyper-V along with some other features Remember not only Hyper-V  So little cautios  completely  Follow the below steps to do that   Download the latest version of the tool from here  Unzip  Open an elevated  i e  Run as administrator  Command Prompt and run the below command by changing the extrated path and the respective version number     powershell -ExecutionPolicy RemoteSigned -Command  quot X  path to dgreadiness v3 6 DG Readiness Tool v3 6 ps1 -Disable quot    Reboot   Then if you try to install intel haxm  it ll work  In case of latest update check the docs available in official intel haxm development link  Hope it helps someone

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Open Android SDK manager  intelhaxm-86 emulator  install that

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I solved this Issue by enabling virtualization technology from system Settings   Just followed these steps   Restart my Computer Continuously press Esc and then F10 to enter BIOS setup configuration  Check Virtualization technology   Your system settings may be changed According to your Computer  You can google  how to enable virtualizatino for YOUR PC NAME    I hope it helps

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In the android sdk manager it says that it has hardware accelerator already installed but I think it is only downloaded not installed I just manually installed the intelhaxm-android exe and it worked for me   plus I had docker installed   there were some answers to disable Hyper-V features  therefore I did that too  but not sure whether it helped or not

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For those who still have problems with this  you can try using an alternative Android emulator such as Genymotion   I m using Ryzen 5 processor with latest Windows 10 update installed  1809   but still can t install HAXM  So  what I did to resolve this was    Enable Hardware Virtualization in BIOS settings Enable Hypervisor Platform in Windows Feature Install Genymotion with Virtual Box -- select for personal use Install Genymotion Android Studio plugin -- find this in Android Studio plugins settings   You re good to go from here

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I was able to resolve my problem of the missing acceleration with the following workflow on Windows 10  Lenovo  Intel Core i7 CPU   Changed to the HAXM setup folder  C  Users  AppData Local Android Sdk extras intel Hardware Accelerated Execution Manager  Opened a cmd  MS-DOS  shell Window and executed haxm check exe to check whether CPU supports HAXM - it outputs in my case   VT support -- yes NX support -- yes   So  I knew this most be a setup problem  So  I started the setup program intelhaxm-android exe in the same folder with Admin account and removed the installed components  After that  I ve attempted to re-install with the same setup program and got this output    So  I went into the CPU section of the BIOS and turned on acceleration Virtualization - went back to the setup program and re-ran it  this time I was pleased to see this output     After that  I restarted Android Studio and used Tools AVD Manager to define a new image for an emulator  I was then able to see the emulator starting up succesfully by clicking the play button in the list of emulators in the AVD Manager s list     or by - Opening a sample project that compiles OK - using File   Sync Project with Gradle Files  to build all artifacts  - Select the app item in the Android  TW  and click Run   Run  app  - Select the previously configured Emaulator showed me this  -   Hope this helps to troubleshoot others with their problems that are really caused by a bad setup implementation since the missing acceleration option was silently swallowed by the Android Studio setup program      -

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