avd - Is it possible to run Android Device Emulator (via Android Studio 2) on VMWare?

Question

I have been running Android Studio 1.5.1 doing development on a WMWare copy of Windows 2012 R2 and everything works fine. I've been able to run the device emulator with no problems and start various versions of Android running in AVD.

Android Studio 2.x Change I recently installed Android Studio 2.0 (see image below for exact version).

Now when I attempt to run the emulator nothing happens. Well, actually I do see a message in the status bar of Studio when I attempt to start the device, but then that message disappears and nothing happens after that.

There is a warning that I need to turn off Hyper-V (see image below), but I don't believe that is possible since this is a VM.

No Longer Possible?

Is it not possible to run the emulator on the VM any more?

Answer 1

More recent versions of the Android Emulator require hardware virtualization support (Intel HAXM).

Unfortunately, most virtual machines do not provide HAXM instructions to the guest (a VM within a VM), so you will be unable to use the emulator within the virtual machine.