Emulator: emulator: ERROR: x86 emulation currently requires hardware acceleration! Emulator: Process finished with exit code 1

Question

Emulator: emulator: ERROR: x86 emulation currently requires hardware acceleration! Emulator: Process finished with exit code 1

Answer 1

For me, I didn't noticed that I had hyper-v enabled when I first installed Android Studio. When trying to reinstall the emulator I got an error message letting me know it needed to be disabled for HAXM to work. So, I first needed to disable hyper-v:

1. Press Windows Key Type "Turn windows features on or off"
2. Find and uncheck Hyper-V
3. Restart

Then you just need to re-install the emulator

1. Open Tools->SDK manager in Android Studio
2. Click the SDK tools tab
3. Uncheck the Intel x86 Emulator Accelerator box
4. Click Apply
5. Check the Intel x86 Emulator Accelerator box
6. Click Apply

The emulator should download and reinstall and should give you a success message. Now the emulator should start.