Cannot start Android Emulator: "Unable to load VM from snapshot"

Question

I tried to launch the android emulator from Eclipse but the emulator will not start.

When I try to start it I get the following error:

emulator: ERROR: Unable to load VM from snapshot. The snapshot has been saved for a different hardware configuration.

Any advice?

Answer 1

Maybe try to disable the hardware snapshot in the Android Virtual Device Manager? It should be installed wherever you installed the android SDK.

Answer 2

I was having this exact problem. The way I resolved it was to edit the AVD and disable the snapshot from the Android Virtual Device Manager like above and also delete the snapshot files snapshots.img and snapshots.img.default-boot.ini (disabling snapshot won't delete them automatically). Then edit the AVD and re-enable the snapshot.

This won't entirely resolve the problem at least in my case. I re-enabled snapshot and kept getting the error and tried the above steps several times. The cause for me was that after I launched the AVD I was closing the Virtual Device Manager window. Leaving the manager window open until after I've closed the AVD window solved it for me!

Answer 3

I need to recreate Virtual Device. Without that it was creating one or other problem.