Trouble getting Android emulator to run in eclipse

Question

I\'m trying to run the SDK Samples on the Emulator in Eclipse 3.5.

Most of the time the AVD Manager hangs when I try to create a new AVD. When I manage to create an

Answer 1

I had a similar problem because of non-latin letters in my username. When opening the ini-file in a text editor I found the non-latin characters was wrong. So I just changed the path from path=c:\Users\YourNa¤%"%¤%%¤me.android\avd\YourAVDName.avd to path=c:\Users\YourName.android\avd\YourAVDName.avd and it worked.