ICS emulator not loading

Question

I'm trying to run the Android emulator with the ICS (Android 4.0) OS but after a 15 minute wait on a fast quad core machine, it's still not doing anything. I understand it's emulating the arm cpu, hence it's slow - but this hasn't even gotten off the loading screen yet! Has anyone managed to get it to run? Any tips?

Answer 1

Try launching without the Launch from snapshot feature

Launching some of my AVD's from command line with

./emulator -avd ...

Gives

savevm: unable to load section cpu

that may or may not be related to the problem(?), but basically launching without the snapshot starts up the emulator.

This happened after I upgraded to Android SDK to 4.0