Android Studio: /dev/kvm device permission denied

Question

When I try to run my Android app on an emulator I get this error:

/dev/kvm permission denied.

I checked the permissions and ad

Answer 1

sudo chown $USER /dev/kvm

Simply running that one command worked for me here in September 2019 running:

Description: Ubuntu 18.04.3

LTS Release: 18.04

Codename: bionic