I am getting the error "the emulator process for avd was killed" and I have researched questions on this side with similar issues and tried things like reinstalling haxm and running a fresh install of android studio.
Here are the logs, please can someone educate me I'm so frustrated
2020-10-16 17:08:00,561 [ 1348] INFO - gs.impl.UpdateCheckerComponent - channel: release
2020-10-16 17:08:00,628 [ 1415] WARN - nSystem.impl.ActionManagerImpl - keymap "ReSharper" not found [Plugin: com.android.tools.ndk]
2020-10-16 17:08:00,648 [ 1435] WARN - nsions.impl.ExtensionPointImpl - Extension to be removed not found: class org.jetbrains.plugins.gradle.execution.test.runner.TestClassGradleConfigurationProducer
2020-10-16 17:08:00,762 [ 1549] WARN - Container.ComponentManagerImpl - Do not use constructor injection (requestorClass=com.android.tools.idea.apk.symbols.DebugSymbolNotifications)
2020-10-16 17:08:01,200 [ 1987] INFO - rd.FirstRunWizardFrameProvider - Overriding welcome frame to be resizable
2020-10-16 17:08:06,410 [ 7197] INFO - manager.EmulatorProcessHandler - Emulator: C:\Users\Cian\AppData\Local\Android\Sdk\emulator\emulator.exe -netdelay none -netspeed full -avd Pixel_4
2020-10-16 17:08:06,427 [ 7214] INFO - roid.tools.idea.adb.AdbService - Initializing adb using: C:\Users\Cian\AppData\Local\Android\Sdk\platform-tools\adb.exe
2020-10-16 17:08:06,439 [ 7226] INFO - manager.EmulatorProcessHandler - Emulator: emulator: ERROR: Unknown AVD name [Pixel_4], use -list-avds to see valid list.
2020-10-16 17:08:06,439 [ 7226] INFO - manager.EmulatorProcessHandler - Emulator: ANDROID_SDK_HOME is defined but there is no file Pixel_4.ini in $ANDROID_SDK_HOME\avd
2020-10-16 17:08:06,439 [ 7226] INFO - manager.EmulatorProcessHandler - Emulator: (Note: Directories are searched in the order $ANDROID_AVD_HOME, $ANDROID_SDK_HOME\avd and $HOME\.android\avd)
2020-10-16 17:08:06,440 [ 7227] INFO - manager.EmulatorProcessHandler - Emulator: Process finished with exit code 1
2020-10-16 17:08:06,441 [ 7228] WARN - manager.EmulatorProcessHandler - Emulator terminated with exit code 1
2020-10-16 17:08:08,508 [ 9295] WARN - #com.android.ddmlib - * daemon not running; starting now at tcp:5037
2020-10-16 17:08:08,529 [ 9316] WARN - #com.android.ddmlib - * daemon started successfully
2020-10-16 17:08:08,537 [ 9324] INFO - #com.android.ddmlib - Connected to adb for device monitoring
2020-10-16 17:08:08,736 [ 9523] INFO - roid.tools.idea.adb.AdbService - Successfully connected to adb
Edited Logs
2020-10-16 18:12:02,605 [ 881852] INFO - manager.EmulatorProcessHandler - Emulator: C:\Users\Cian\AppData\Local\Android\Sdk\emulator\emulator.exe -netdelay none -netspeed full -avd Pixel_4_XL_API_30
2020-10-16 18:12:02,631 [ 881878] INFO - manager.EmulatorProcessHandler - Emulator: emulator: ERROR: Unknown AVD name [Pixel_4_XL_API_30], use -list-avds to see valid list.
2020-10-16 18:12:02,631 [ 881878] INFO - manager.EmulatorProcessHandler - Emulator: ANDROID_SDK_HOME is defined but there is no file Pixel_4_XL_API_30.ini in $ANDROID_SDK_HOME\avd
2020-10-16 18:12:02,631 [ 881878] INFO - manager.EmulatorProcessHandler - Emulator: (Note: Directories are searched in the order $ANDROID_AVD_HOME, $ANDROID_SDK_HOME\avd and $HOME\.android\avd)
2020-10-16 18:12:02,631 [ 881878] INFO - manager.EmulatorProcessHandler - Emulator: Process finished with exit code 1
2020-10-16 18:12:02,631 [ 881878] WARN - manager.EmulatorProcessHandler - Emulator terminated with exit code 1
2020-10-16 18:12:32,480 [ 911727] INFO - manager.EmulatorProcessHandler - Emulator: C:\Users\Cian\AppData\Local\Android\Sdk\emulator\emulator.exe -netdelay none -netspeed full -avd Pixel_4_XL_API_30
2020-10-16 18:12:32,506 [ 911753] INFO - manager.EmulatorProcessHandler - Emulator: emulator: ERROR: Unknown AVD name [Pixel_4_XL_API_30], use -list-avds to see valid list.
2020-10-16 18:12:32,506 [ 911753] INFO - manager.EmulatorProcessHandler - Emulator: ANDROID_SDK_HOME is defined but there is no file Pixel_4_XL_API_30.ini in $ANDROID_SDK_HOME\avd
2020-10-16 18:12:32,506 [ 911753] INFO - manager.EmulatorProcessHandler - Emulator: (Note: Directories are searched in the order $ANDROID_AVD_HOME, $ANDROID_SDK_HOME\avd and $HOME\.android\avd)
2020-10-16 18:12:32,506 [ 911753] INFO - manager.EmulatorProcessHandler - Emulator: Process finished with exit code 1
2020-10-16 18:12:32,506 [ 911753] WARN - manager.EmulatorProcessHandler - Emulator terminated with exit code 1
ANDROID_SDK_HOME is defined but there is no file Pixel_4.ini in $ANDROID_SDK_HOME\avd
it seems you have configured an emulator without an image or the image might have been delted later.
all you have to do is download a valid emulator image and then reconfigure emulator and after that you can expect things to work properly
[EDIT]: based on update in question
there are two important messages in log
Unknown AVD name [Pixel_4_XL_API_30], use -list-avds to see valid listANDROID_SDK_HOME is defined but there is no file Pixel_4_XL_API_30.ini in $ANDROID_SDK_HOME\avdin the first error it seems the the emunlator is not running so the error is about that
in second error there might be some path mismatch due to which the image is not found by the emulator before running.
so you check manually at path $ANDROID_SDK_HOME\avd do you see your emulator images ? then comment back