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Intel HAXM under a guest OS (Windows 10) running on Linux (KVM) crashes in Android emulator

Need help about Intel HAX which crashes under Windows 10 when running Windows 10 as a guest OS in a VM.

Some background information:

Hypervisor: KVM (virt-manager on ubuntu 16.10)
Guest operating system: Windows 10
Nested virtualization allowed
VT-X in Bios set
Intel HAX installed (latest version)
Android Studio (Version 6 as image for the Android emulator)

Problem: When I run Android Studio and use Intel (x86) boot option to show up Android Emulator, Windows crashes completely. The error is a problem with a sys file of Intel HAX. Unfortunately I expected some wrong behavior of the Windows 10 running as VM with some nested virtualization components. In arm-mode I can start up the Android emulator but it's very slow. Is there a solution to use Google Intel (x86) Android image anyway? Some special key to start the emulator with?

Solution

  • The emulator is not really intended to be run in this configuration. You can try several things:

    • Run the emulator from the cmd line with the -no-accel flag.
    • Uninstall HAXM.

    Note that performance will not be very good.

    If possible try to run the emulator in the linux host, or under a linux guest.