No accelerator found - failed to create HAX VM

Question

I am unable to launch any emulators on Android Studio. When trying to launch an emulator, I get the following error:

Failed to create vm ffffffff Failed to create HAX VM No accelerator found. failed to initialize HAX: Invalid argument Hax is enabled Hax ram_size 0x80000000` 

I have uninstalled Intel HAXM, installed it again, restarted Android studio, tried different system images, and tweaked heap space for the emulator. I have tried different device images, different API levels, and have tried switching emulated performance from auto to both hardware and software to no avail. Nothing I have tried has worked. Here are my emulator's details:

Name: Nexus_6P_API_23 CPU/ABI: Google APIs Intel Atom (x86) Path: /Users/mobile/.android/avd/Nexus_6P_API_23.avd Target: google_apis [Google APIs] (API level 23) Skin: nexus_6p SD Card: /Users/mobile/.android/avd/Nexus_6P_API_23.avd/sdcard.img hw.lcd.density: 560 hw.dPad: no avd.ini.encoding: UTF-8 hw.camera.back: none disk.dataPartition.size: 800M hw.gpu.enabled: yes runtime.network.latency: none hw.keyboard: yes runtime.network.speed: full hw.device.hash2: MD5:9b564b60b1aebee32c73ded9daa1e620 hw.ramSize: 2048 tag.id: google_apis tag.display: Google APIs hw.sdCard: yes hw.device.manufacturer: Google hw.mainKeys: no hw.accelerometer: yes hw.trackBall: no hw.device.name: Nexus 6P hw.sensors.proximity: yes hw.gpu.mode: auto hw.battery: yes AvdId: Nexus_6P_API_23 image.sysdir.1: system-images/android-23/google_apis/x86/ hw.sensors.orientation: yes hw.audioInput: yes hw.camera.front: none hw.gps: yes avd.ini.displayname: Nexus 6P API 23 vm.heapSize: 1028 image.androidVersion.api: 23 runtime.scalefactor: auto 

Following instructions from Intel's docs, I ran the command kextstat | grep intel to verify the HAXM installation and got the following return:

154 0 0xffffff7f82ae4000 0x14000 0x14000 com.intel.kext.intelhaxm (6.0.3) <7 5 4 3 1>

Answer 1

Try installing or updating Intel Emulator Accelerator (HAXM installer) from SDK Manager and also check if Intel VT-x is enabled in your BIOS settings