“Failed to attach to the remote VM” connecting jdb to the android emulator on Windows

Question

I’ve been trying to connect jdb to the android emulator for a little while, and have been met repeatedly with:

jdb -sourcepath ./src -attach localhost:8700

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Answer 1

Currently this is working for me -- making a socket rather than a shared memory connection.

>jdb –sourcepath .\src -connect com.sun.jdi.SocketAttach:hostname=localhost,port=8700

Beforehand you need to do some setup -- for example, see this set of useful details on setting up a non-eclipse debugger. It includes a good tip for setting your initial breakpoint -- create or edit a jdb.ini file in your home directory, with content like:

stop at com.mine.of.package.some.AClassIn:14

and they'll get loaded and deferred until connection.

edit: forgot to reference Herong Yang's page.