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

I am using ubuntu 18.04. I was facing the same problem. I run this piece of command in terminal and problem is resolved.

sudo chown $USER /dev/kvm

the above command is for all the user present in your system.

If you want to give access to only a specific user then run this command

sudo chown UserNameHere /dev/kvm