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Codeone
Codeone

Reputation: 1201

Visual studio Emulator for Android not working

I am trying to create Xamarin android app, I can't run the Visual studio Emulator for Android, displayed the following error box, how can I fix it?
enter image description here I tried to fix it using the following solution but didn't work

1. Start Registry Editor.

2. Locate the following registry subkey:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Virtualization

3. Right-click the Virtualization folder

Point to New, and then click DWORD Value.

4. Type MemoryReserve, and then press Enter.

5. Double-click MemoryReserve, enter 2048 in the Value data box, select the Decimal option, and then click OK.

6. Close Registry Editor.

Upvotes: 3

Views: 1010

Answers (3)

aemre
aemre

Reputation: 2580

Choose your device's cfg file

Choose your device's cfg file and change this row device.vm.ram.size=2048 with device.vm.ram.size=1024

Upvotes: 0

Jakub Holovsky
Jakub Holovsky

Reputation: 6772

I believe that you have probably 4 GBs of RAM (also happened to me) so you will not be able to run the emulator. Solution would be buying more RAM :)

Minimum requirements for Visual Studio Android Emulator are following:

System requirements

  • Hyper-V support (see Hyper-V requirements below)
  • 6 GB or more of RAM.
  • 64-bit version of the Pro edition of Windows 8, Windows 8.1, Windows10 or higher
  • A processor that supports SSSE3 or later.

Network requirements

  • DHCP
  • Automatically configured DNS and gateway settings

Hyper-V requirements:

  • In the BIOS, the following features must be supported:

  • Hardware-assisted virtualization

  • Second Level Address Translation (SLAT)
  • Hardware-based Data Execution Prevention (DEP)
  • In Windows, Hyper-V must be enabled and running.
  • You have to be a member of the local Hyper-V Administrators group.

Source: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/mt228280.aspx

Upvotes: 2

Jon Douglas
Jon Douglas

Reputation: 13176

I run into this error quite often when I'm running a large load of programs. I would recommend going into Task Manager, killing any larger processes and then running the emulator as one of the only processes(With VS of course).

Upvotes: 1

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