Android Emulator: Failed to allocate memory: 8 even with 8MB RAM

Question

I\'m trying to start an emulator, but I keep getting the error Failed to allocate memory: 8.

There are some solutions to this problem, setting the RAM

Answer 1

You need to access avd config file that resides in:

C:\Users\Furqan\.android\avd\Gingerbread.avd

Here my user name is Furqan and Gingerbread.avd is the name of emulator device there is config.ini file there, you can change ramsize or vm.heapSize=128 hw.ramSize=2048mb

Makesure ramsize should be in mb and similarly you can change any thing in the emulator from here easily.

     avd.ini.encoding=ISO-8859-1
     hw.sdCard=no
     hw.device.manufacturer=Google
     hw.mainKeys=yes
     hw.lcd.density=320
     hw.accelerometer=yes
     hw.dPad=yes
     hw.cpu.arch=arm
     skin.name=720x1280
     abi.type=armeabi
     hw.device.hash=-708107041
     hw.trackBall=no
     hw.device.name=Galaxy Nexus
     hw.camera.back=emulated
     hw.sensors.proximity=yes
     hw.battery=yes
     disk.dataPartition.size=200M
     image.sysdir.1=platforms\android-10\images\
     hw.audioInput=yes
     hw.sensors.orientation=yes
     hw.camera.front=emulated
     hw.gps=yes
     skin.dynamic=yes
     skin.path=720x1280
     hw.keyboard=yes
     vm.heapSize=128
     hw.ramSize=2048mb

Note: hw.ramSize put mb in small case as upper case didnt work for me.