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ttyip
ttyip

Reputation: 1261

Android Studio Emulator "/dev/kvm is not found"

Couldn't use x86 emulators, AVD manager shows warning "/dev/kvm is not found" and telling me to edit BIOS security setting to enable VT-x.enter image description here

Upvotes: 30

Views: 76687

Answers (12)

Peter Gichia
Peter Gichia

Reputation: 261

A quick solution that worked for me was to go to my PC BIOS which i'm running an Ubuntu OS on and shutting it down and turning it on pressing the F10 key which boots it up to the BIOS and navigate to Advance Option > System Options and enabling both Vitualization Technology(VTX) and Vitualization Technology for Directed I/O(VTd) then save and exit and this should restart your PC and now try running the emulator.

Upvotes: 0

Falansh Siddh
Falansh Siddh

Reputation: 111

Update Bios Setting

  1. Power on the system and press[delete] key to enter BIOS [EZ Mode]

  2. Press [F7] key to enter BIOS [Advance Mode] as below picture： (If press [delete] key to enter [Advanced Mode] directly and then no need to press [F7] key any more)

  3. Select [Advanced] page and click [CPU Configuration] item

  4. Select [Intel(VMX) Virtualization Technology] item and set to [Enabled]

  5. Press [F10] key and click [OK] ,the system will auto reboot

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Upvotes: 1

Rhibi Hamdi
Rhibi Hamdi

Reputation: 56

Either your CPU does not support virtualization, or it is disabled in the bios. Go into your bios and see if you can find a setting to enable it.

Upvotes: 0

Prince Radebe
Prince Radebe

Reputation: 141

I couldn't install mine because I had HyperV enabled on my machine. Removed it and I was able to install the HAXM from the following link:

https://github.com/intel/haxm

Upvotes: 0

user9573646
user9573646

Reputation: 9

Just go to terminal and type 

sudo chown 777 -R /dev/kvm,

then type

sudo chmod 777 -R /dev/kvm.

And restart android studio

And that's it..

In some case it may happened that for every start of android studio you need to type this commands First and then start android studio.

Upvotes: 0

David
David

Reputation: 161

Reinstalling and restarting did not work for me. Instead, I had to start my Mac in Recovery Mode (restart & press ⌘+R until Apple logo appears). Then open terminal from Utilities drop down menu. Type and run:

csrutil enable --without kext

You will get some warnings and instruction to restart for the changes to take effect. Restart and the emulator will run this time.

Reference: https://blog.celogeek.com/201708/672/android-studio-emulator-haxm-on-mac-os-high-serria-10-13/

Upvotes: 0

Sam B
Sam B

Reputation: 27608

For MacOS users running Android Studio, when you get this error then try these steps to open up your privacy settings.

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You can also follow the answer from Divakar on this post here - /dev/kvm not found on mac

Thank you Apple for pushing me with your dumb*** app review rules from iOS to android development

Upvotes: 45

Crysfel
Crysfel

Reputation: 8158

On Mac OS, After installing make sure to allow Intel HAXM under "Security & Privacy".

This was the only way I was able to run the Android Emulator :)

Upvotes: 0

Adriano Sales
Adriano Sales

Reputation: 41

You just need to "start" the HAXM. You can do this following this steps:

  1. Open the cmd.
  2. Type sc query intelhaxm, click enter and check the STATE.
  3. If state is 1 STOPED, type sc start intelhaxm and click enter to start the HAXM.
  4. Check the STATE again and it should be 4 RUNNING now.
  5. Finally, you are now able to create and use your AVD using a x86 emulator.

Alternatively, when you want to stop the HAXM you should type sc stop intelhaxm.

Hope this helps y'all.

Upvotes: 2

makthrow
makthrow

Reputation: 139

I tried reinstalling HAXM a few times but kept getting the errors.

In my case I actually had to go into Bios Settings and enable Virtualization.

It worked for me. Just in case this helps anyone.

Upvotes: -2

WickedW
WickedW

Reputation: 2591

I had a similar message in the emulators area in Android Studio 2.1.

My emulator for a certain API (think 21) worked initially fine and was fully accelerated, then installed a couple of other images (Nougat x86/64 etc) and suddenly started seeing /dev/kvm not found and NO emulator would boot up.

  • In My Case, re-installing HAXM sadly did not help, but rebooting my MAC did (go figure).

  • But, I also noted that if you have installed an emulator image but not the related SDK for the API (which makes sense), then you get a similar pop-up when starting the emulator, which makes you think it may be a HAXM / KVM issue, which its not.

Hope this helps someone.

Upvotes: 1

ttyip
ttyip

Reputation: 1261

Re-installing HAXM resolved my problem Steps:

  1. Make sure SDK Manager -> Extras -> Intel x86 Emulator Accelerator (HAXM installer) is installed
  2. Navigate to <sdk>/extras/intel/Hardware_Accelerated_Execution_Manager/
  3. Run ./HAXM\ installation -u
  4. Run ./HAXM\ installation

Upvotes: 45

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