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I have installed all of the necessary parts and the ADT plugin for Eclipse. When I create an Android virtual device and start it, nothing appears. I get the box where the green status bar shows up and says 'Starting emulator for AVD'. However, nothing appears afterwards. No logs in the Console either....does anyone have any suggestions? thanks.

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For Ubuntu (I use Xubuntu):

Mine Android Virtual Devices didn't started because i used NVIDIA drivers for ubuntu. After changing drivers to Nouveau it booted in 15sec.

Go to "Settings Manager" -> Software & Updated -> Additional Drivers chose: "Using X.org x server -- Nouveau display driver (open source)"

NVIDIA F# U http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=55XVnJ_0qhg

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I had a similar issue. Windows 7. ADT Bundle 64-bit. I was logging in to my PC with Active Directory credentials(corporate). Emulator was not starting at all, after I tried many different things. I switched to a local administrator login, and everything worked.

This is not necessarily the solution. I would rather want to know how to make it work on my AD account.

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I found the problem is the graphic card. The emulator may not recognize you graphic card try again with another one.

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I had the same issue for a bit and realized it was because when you set the skin it is default set to WVGA800 but for whatever reason it only worked if that was set to HVGA.

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That didn't work either :( –  dido Oct 9 '12 at 15:38
hmm I'll keep searching for ya.. –  niccosuave Oct 11 '12 at 18:23
@niccosuave yoou just made my day –  Akhil Jain Feb 6 '13 at 13:43
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You will have more chances to debug the issue if you start emulator with “emulator” command:

emulator @avd-name

“avd-name” is your emulator image name as you created it.

And if you don't happen to have “emulator” command, try adding “android-sdk-linux_x86/tools/” (where android-sdk-linux_x86 is your android SDK installation directory) to your PATH.

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I'm on a windows environment. Can you please tell me how to do this in Windows –  dido Oct 9 '12 at 15:14
Approximately, since I don't use Windows. To run the “emulator @avd-name”, you open a console by I think doing Start → Run → type “cmd” → click OK or whatever the confirm button is. The “cmd” is the windows command-line interface. Next, once you've got that black window, the console, try running the “emulator” command I've mentioned earlier. –  user1410657 Oct 9 '12 at 15:21
As for setting the PATH variable, if you don't know how to do it please google with your particular Windows version since it's different for different versions (e.g. google.com/search?q=edit+environment+variables+windows+7). After setting it, you might need to restart the console. –  user1410657 Oct 9 '12 at 15:26
or just go where the emulator exe is located and type what user1410657 told you ... I really dont get why everytime people make a fuss about windows os :P –  sataniccrow Oct 9 '12 at 15:30
I've done that guys, but still no luck. –  dido Oct 9 '12 at 15:37
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