Android Emulator on Eclipse Not Working

Question

I've been following the instructions found at http://developer.android.com/training/basics/firstapp/running-app.html to run the Hello World app on Eclipse's AVD, but the AVD does not launch and I get the following messages:

[2013-01-20 00:20:59 - MyFirstApp] ------------------------------
[2013-01-20 00:20:59 - MyFirstApp] Android Launch!
[2013-01-20 00:20:59 - MyFirstApp] adb is running normally.
[2013-01-20 00:20:59 - MyFirstApp] Performing com.example.myfirstapp.MainActivity      activity launch
[2013-01-20 00:21:00 - MyFirstApp] Automatic Target Mode: launching new emulator with     compatible AVD 'TestAVD'
[2013-01-20 00:21:00 - MyFirstApp] Launching a new emulator with Virtual Device    'TestAVD'
[2013-01-20 00:21:48 - Emulator] Failed to create Context 0x3005
[2013-01-20 00:21:48 - Emulator] emulator: WARNING: Could not initialize OpenglES emulation, using software renderer.
[2013-01-20 00:21:48 - Emulator] Failed to allocate memory: 8
[2013-01-20 00:21:48 - Emulator] 
[2013-01-20 00:21:48 - Emulator] This application has requested the Runtime to terminate it in an unusual way.
[2013-01-20 00:21:48 - Emulator] Please contact the application's support team for more information.

Also, an error window popped up saying that the ARM emulator exe has stopped working. Any thoughts?

Solution 1

OP of this thread has similar error message,

emulator: WARNING: Could not initialize OpenglES emulation, using software renderer

Hope it helps!

Solution 2

Check 2 things:

• That you are using 512MB of RAM (the emulator doesn't work properly with more)
• Try turning 'Host GPU' off