AVD not booting after Android Studio update

Question

My AVDs are no longer booting after I installed a 921MB update released these days. I don\'t exactly remember the entity of the update (maybe API/SDK revision), I\'m using A

Answer 1

I eventually found a temporary solution hoping they'll fix the bug. You should open config.ini inside .android/AVD/[AVD name]/ and set

hw.gpu.enabled=yes
hw.gpu.mode=swiftshader

and the VM got back to work properly.

Source: https://issuetracker.google.com/issues/36905888

Answer 2

for all Windows Users the config.ini is in

C:\Users\yourname.android\avd\yourdevicename.avd/config.ini

and the entries

hw.gpu.enabled=yes hw.gpu.mode=auto

exist already. But the change of hw.gpu.mode to "swiftshader" works perfectly.