Do AVDs (Android Virtual Devices) write logs? If so where?

Question

About 3 days ago, after doing a bunch of AVD updates, SDK updates, Eclipse updates, Windows updates, doing end of year backups.... all new AVDs I create using the AVD manager seem to crash while loading. Windows pops up a box with the following message.

• Emulator-arm.exe has stopped working
• A problem caused the program to stop working correctly;
• Windows will closed the program and notify you if a solution is available [Close Program]

AVDs created more then a week ago still seem to be working fine. Dose the AVD write logs I can examine to try and figure out what happened (I'm a curious kind of guy, and like to figure out what happened, rather then just uninstall/reinstall the AVD and hope for the best.)? My questions are:

1 - Do ADVs and/or the ADV manager write logs when they have problems?

2 - Where do I find any of these logs? / How should I read them?

Answer 1

You can run the emulator from within a terminal to get all the output ( including errors ).

Run "emulator.exe -help" to get the complete list of possible arguments.