Android: why snapshots and gpu are mutually exclusive?

Question

I tried to use snapshots and gpu support for emulator both. But emulator refused to start:

emulator: ERROR: Snapshots and gpu are mutually exclusive a

Answer 1

first check weather your Android emulator snapshot enabled or not? (if cheked make it as Unchecked) Goto AVD in Eclipse->select your emulator->edit ->snapshot enabled->uncheck it. start again will run normally. I did it for this same problem.