Android emulator failed to allocate memory 8

Question

When I try to run my WXGA800 emulator from Eclipse it\'s giving an error like this

Failed to allocate memory: 8
This application has requested the Runtime to         


        

Answer 1

This following solution worked for me. In the following configuration file:

C:\Users\<user>\.android\avd\<avd-profile-name>.avd\config.ini

Replace

hw.ramSize=1024

by

hw.ramSize=1024MB

Answer 2

In the AVD setup: Change the CPU/ABI option to MIPS. It worked for me

Answer 3

Changing the ramSize in config.ini file didnt work for me.

I changed the SD Card size to 1000 MiB in Edit Android Virtual Device window ...It worked! :)

Answer 4

Try this if other answers did not work for you.

For me This happened for API 27 Emulator.

API 26 Emulator worked just fine. So I started API 26 Emulator first and then closed it.

Then I started API 27 Emulator and It worked with No errors at all.

Answer 5

Update: Starting with Android SDK Manager version 21, the solution is to edit C:\Users\.android\avd\.avd\config.ini and change the value

hw.ramSize=1024 to

hw.ramSize=1024MB

OR

hw.ramSize=512MB

Answer 6

In my case, the solution was to change not only config.ini but also hardware.ini for the specific skin from hw.ramSize=1024 to hw.ramSize=1024MB.

To find the hardware.ini file:

1. Open the config.ini and locate skin.path.
2. Then navigate to the folder where the android sdk is located.
3. Open the path, like this: android-sdk\platforms\android-15\skins\WXGA720.
4. Inside this folder you will locate the hardware.ini.
5. Change hw.ramSize=1024 to hw.ramSize=1024MB.