In my case, I got this error while trying to launch AVD from the Ubuntu 20.04 LTS installed on the VMware Workstation /data/tools/android-sdk/tools$. Next, I could just restart the machine, create new AVD, start it and everything worked! I could finally use my Android emulator.In several cases, your system might throw error specific to hardware acceleration while trying to launch an AVD. Now, I could check group members once again with: grep kvm /etc/group I can check my username, by typing: whoami To add the user username to the kvm group, I could use: sudo adduser username kvm To check which users are in the kvm group, I could use: grep kvm /etc/groupĪs there is nothing left to the final :, there are no users in the kvm group.

Then, checked the ownership of /dev/kvm: ls -al /dev/kvm

I installed required software: sudo apt install qemu-kvm I just needed to install qemu-kvm and add my user to the kvm group. Luckily, I found answer to this issue on StackOverflow. Unfortunately, that wasn’t the end of the story. Now, I could press F10 to save, exit nad restart the computer. Next, I entered Security tab and enabled Intel Virtualization Technology and Intel VT-d Feature. In order to enable KVM, I needed to restart the computer and enter the BIOS by pressing F1 key before the system boot. KVM (Kernel-based Virtual Machine) is a full virtualization solution for Linux on x86 hardware containing virtualization extensions (Intel VT or AMD-V). After opening AVD window, I saw the error message… I was able to create a new device, but unfortunately I encoutered problems.

As usual, I wanted to create a new Android phone emulator called AVD (Android Virtual Device). I installed Android SDK and Android Studio on my new ThinkPad T470s with Ubuntu Linux 18.04.1 LTS.

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