Is there any way, that I can make Android Emulator run on Azure Virtual Machine?

Question

I installed Android Studio on Azure VM and installed all the prerequisites. When I try to run the emulator, I get the following error

Answer 1

As of mid-2017, there are now VMs that support nested virtualization (Dv3 and Ev3 series, for now). Still, I couldn't run the Android virtual device(AVD) created in the android studio. But, below solution worked for me:

1. Check if Azure VM supports nested virtualization.
   
2. Enable hyper-v in VM as mentioned here 1.
   
3. Use Visual Studio Emulator. Visual studio emulator definitely works on azure VM.

Answer 2

Something that requires virtualization isn't going to run in an Azure VM (which is already virtualized). Same thing with, say, WP8 emulator (see this question, with the same answer).

EDIT - As of mid-2017, there are now VMs that support nested virtualization (Dv3 and Ev3 series, for now). See this post for more information.

Answer 3

The Android emulator works with the following setup:

Azure VM: Windows 10 Enterprise N

Android Studio: 2.3.1

AVD Manager

Hardware: Phone -> Nexus 5X
System Image: Other Images -> Nougat 25 armeabi-v7a [Android 7.1.1]

Start the emulator and wait about 5-10 minutes for the process to complete. Then run your Android app by attaching it to the running emulator. Note that "Apply Changes" (lightning bolt icon) also works for small code changes.

Answer 4

Forget about enabling nested virtualization or else. All you have to do is:

1. Disable Hyper-V
2. Install Mumu emulator.

And you'll see emulator working on your VM.

Answer 5

If you set the CPU of the emulator to armeabi-v7a it will work (albeit very very slowly). Tested with Rev 25. I assume this works because it doesn't use virtualization, but rather CPU Emulation.