How can I run Android emulator for Intel x86 Atom without hardware acceleration on Windows 8 for API 21 and 19?
Solution 1:
In current AVD manager you can't. You just have the opportunity to use ARM images which will not need hardware virtualization.
To run ARM images:
- Open AVD manager.
- Create a new 'Virtual Device' OR right click an existing image and select 'Duplicate'
- Choose arm* instead of x86/x64.
- Continue with the wizard.
- Run!
Although this is the available solution but still a slow one !!
Solution 2:
You can still force the use of the soft x86 emulator by running it from the command line and using the -no-accel option, i.e. from the SDK/tools directory:
emulator -avd AVD_NAME -memory 768 -no-accel -gpu on
BUT this still won't work with the current (V24) SDK, because the current x86 system images crash the soft x86 emulator :-(
The only way I got this working again was to downgrade the SDK tools to V22.3 from here: http://dl-ssl.google.com/android/repository/tools_r22.3-windows.zip and to buld an AVD using a downgraded system image, for instance https://dl-ssl.google.com/android/repository/sys-img/android/sysimg_x86-17_r02.zip. (So this is no help if you need to test on more recent versions of Android).
Google have moved on to an updated version of their emulator based on a more recent version of qemu, and provide binaries for arm and mips emulators, but have omitted to ship the x86 equivalent (there is no emulator-ranchu-x86.exe and emulator64-ranchu-x86.exe). If they did so, or if someone else went to the trouble of setting up and compiling their emulator source with the "x86" flag on, then _x86 soft emulation could conceivably be made to work again.