“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

Answer #1: Map localhost in your hosts file, as I linked to earlier. Just to be sure.

Answer #2: If you're using shared memory, bit-size could easily become an issue. Make sure you're using the same word width everywhere.