AVD Manager: The emulator process for AVD has terminated | Android Studio Arctic Fox 2020.3.1 | MacOS 12 M1 chip

Question

The AVD manager is not starting the emulator, whenever tried starting the emulator it shows the below error in screenshot

Answer 1

I was able to find solution after searching for a while on the internet and posting the answer here so that anyone else facing the same issue could find it easily.

Apple M1 chip has a 64 bit ARM architecture also known as AArch64, so it requires the emulator setup in the following way

When you create a new virtual device select the options shown in the screenshot

Remember to select the Other images tab and under that verify the ABI is arm64-v8a, then only the emulator will get started.

Here is the screenshot of working emulator

Answer 2

The same problem happened with me, and I solved it when I deleted the emulator by opening the task manager and doing the end task for avd, android, and qeum-system and then in this path

C:\Users*pc*.android\avd

and I

deleted

-based on this- what was in it from the folder of the emulator and the ini file. Then i just open android and make new emulator , and work with me then

Answer 3

You can simply try to disable emulator VM acceleration.

You can force the use of the soft x86 emulator by running it from the command line and using the -no-accel option.

i.e. from the SDK/tools directory on Windows :

To list available AVDs:

C:\Users\<YOUR_USER_NAME>\AppData\Local\Android\Sdk\emulator>emulator -list-avds

To disable VM acceleration:

C:\Users\<YOUR_USER_NAME>\AppData\Local\Android\Sdk\emulator>emulator -avd Pixel_4_API_29 -no-accel -no-boot-anim

Reference: https://developer.android.com/studio/run/emulator-commandline#common

Answer 4

I had to free up more storage, and that fixed it for me. I went from <1gb of space to 10+ gb free, and it looks like the emulator process takes no more than 1-2gb.