title: Unable to create Android Virtual Device in Visual Studio Xamarin Tools
body: <p>I have a Virtualbox VM with Windows 10 and</p>
  
  <blockquote>
    <p>Microsoft Visual Studio Community 2017 Preview Version 15.6.0 Preview
    5.0 VisualStudio.15.Preview/15.6.0-pre.5.0+27413.0 Microsoft .NET Framework Version 4.7.02558</p>
  </blockquote>
  
  <p>with Xamarin Tools for VS</p>
  
  <blockquote>
    <p>Xamarin   4.9.0.730 (c06c7fdd0) Visual Studio extension to enable
    development for Xamarin.iOS and Xamarin.Android.</p>
    
    <p>Xamarin Designer   4.10.53 (0f268fa65) Visual Studio extension to
    enable Xamarin Designer tools in Visual Studio.</p>
    
    <p>Xamarin.Android SDK   8.2.0.12 (HEAD/413eed680) Xamarin.Android
    Reference Assemblies and MSBuild support.</p>
    
    <p>Xamarin.iOS and Xamarin.Mac SDK   11.8.0.18 (4c56cbb) Xamarin.iOS and
    Xamarin.Mac Reference Assemblies and MSBuild support.</p>
  </blockquote>
  
  <p>I know that I can't run x86 base emulator in a VM, but what I am trying to achieve is to run an arm base emulator which should be possible as it doesn't need hardware acceleration.</p>
  
  <p>However, trying to create a new AVD (any AVD) always fails. Below some screenshots showing the Android setup and the errors</p>
  
  <p><a href="https://i.stack.imgur.com/7BsAr.png" rel="nofollow noreferrer"><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/7BsAr.png" alt="Android SDK Manager"></a></p>
  
  <p><a href="https://i.stack.imgur.com/6GV3A.png" rel="nofollow noreferrer"><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/6GV3A.png" alt="Android SDK Manager"></a></p>
  
  <p><a href="https://i.stack.imgur.com/TB5OC.png" rel="nofollow noreferrer"><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/TB5OC.png" alt="Android Emulator Manager"></a></p>
  
  <p><a href="https://i.stack.imgur.com/0AKpU.png" rel="nofollow noreferrer"><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/0AKpU.png" alt="Android Emulator Manager"></a></p>
  
  <p>Finally the <a href="https://1drv.ms/u/s!Asf--g2ep0Ji2Bm9spGXhPPtvBCO" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Log Report</a></p>
  
  <p><strong>EDIT:</strong>
  Please note that I am not asking for workarounds or advice (at this stage at least).</p>
  
  <ul>
  <li>I know that non accelerated emulators are slow</li>
  <li>I know that there are potential workarounds (Android Studio AVD manager, CLI avdmanager...)</li>
  </ul>
  
  <p>I am using a tooling (Visual Studio + Xamarin Tools for Visual Studio) which is supposed to work in a certain way, but it doesn't seem to. Either I am doing something wrong, or there is a bug somewhere. So I expect answers like:</p>
  
  <p>"This is a known issue of ..... and will be solved in a future release of the product"
  or</p>
  
  <p>"Your setup is incorrect, change to ...."
  or</p>
  
  <p>"What you are doing is not supported, see ...."</p>