Android emulator hates me

Question

Sorry for this title but I'm just so mad because not any of the emulators seem to be working for me. Here are the reasons:

1. Built-in Android Emulator - too slow, it won't even deploy the application, stuck at Starting emulator ..., mostly gets the error Emulator cannot be started with VS (unknown provider)

2. Genymotion - i thought this is my hope but the virtualbox for some reason gives me Blue Screen of Death hence not being able to use this really good, best recommended emulator

   BSOD Technical Information: STOP: 0x0000003B (0x00000000c0000005, 0xFFFFF880010C9710, 0xFFFFF8800DFB8690, 0000000000000000)

3. XAP or Xamarin Android Player - uses VirtualBox as well, won't let me run the emulator, a dialog box appears saying Failed to start the virtual machine. This indicates you have just installed virtualbox and need to reboot your computer. Rebooted/restarted the computer a thousand times, same error.

This is too much pain for me as I'm still a beginner in Android Development but seems like it hates me so much.

Processor: Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-5300U CPU @ 2.30GHz 2.30 GHz RAM: 8.00 GB System: Windows 7 64 bit

Btw, I'm working my Android app in Xamarin Visual Studio 2015.

Let me know if I missed any specific details.

Answer 1

Install Intel hardware accelerator manager (HAXM).

It can be downloaded using the android sdk manager. Once downloaded you have to run the installer manually. The installer is located in you android sdk folder, in /extra/Intel subfolder.

After it is installed, any android simulator using an x86 image will run full speed.

Also make sure HyperV is deactivated, and that virtualization is enable in the machine's bios.