HAXM and Lollipop

Question

After the SDK upgrade to Android 5, I cannot use the Intel Hardware Accelerated Execution Manager:

$ android-sdk-macosx/tools/emulator -avd AVD_for_LowMemoryDevice_by_User -netspeed full -netdelay none -gpu on HAX is working and emulator runs in fast virt mode     emulator: VCPU shutdown request  EAX=80000001 EBX=019a0000 ECX=c0000080 EDX=00000000 ESI=00013c40 EDI=01d9d000 EBP=00100000 ESP=004f6104 EIP=001000f0 EFL=00000002 [-------] CPL=0 II=0 A20=1 SMM=0 HLT=0 ES =0018 00000000 ffffffff 00c09300 DPL=0 DS   [-WA] CS =0010 00000000 ffffffff 00c09b00 DPL=0 CS32 [-RA] SS =0018 00000000 ffffffff 00c09300 DPL=0 DS   [-WA] DS =0018 00000000 ffffffff 00c09300 DPL=0 DS   [-WA] FS =0018 00000000 ffffffff 00c09300 DPL=0 DS   [-WA] GS =0018 00000000 ffffffff 00c09300 DPL=0 DS   [-WA] LDT=0000 00000000 00000000 00008200 DPL=0 LDT TR =0020 00000000 00000fff 00008b00 DPL=0 TSS64-busy GDT=     00000000004ea098 00000030 IDT=     0000000000000000 00000000 CR0=80000011 CR2=0000000000000000 CR3=0000000001d97000 CR4=00000020 DR0=0000000000000000 DR1=0000000000000000 DR2=0000000000000000 DR3=0000000000000000  DR6=00000000ffff0ff0 DR7=0000000000000400 emulator: VCPU shutdown request 

Any ideas as to how to fix it? (platform: OS X 10.10, java version "1.8.0_25")

Answer 1

I had the same issue when creating a Nexus 6 AVD with an x86_64 image and it appears the HAXM does not support that on an old Core 2 Duo (Mac Book Pro late 2009 for example).
This is specified in the Release note known issues in $ANDROID_SDK_HOME/extras/intel/Hardware_Accelerated_Execution_Manager.

HAXM driver does not support emulating a 64 bit system image on Intel systems based on Core microarchitecture (Core, Core2 Duo etc.). All systems based on Nehalem and beyond are supported. (Corei3, Core i5 and Core i7 machines).