Windows 7 64bit android AVD start error:Failed to allocate memory: 8

Question

I just updated to Android SDK Tools r20, and try to create avd base on android 4.1 and WXGA, but I got error message when I start AVD.

config.ini:

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Answer 1

This seems to be a problem with SDK Tools r20, in which the amount of RAM can not be set from the AVD Manager for the WXGAxxx skins (and the default 1024 MB is too much for the 32 bit emulator).

Workaround

You can work around the issue by starting the AVD from the command line, and hard set the amount of memory to something lower:

> cd c:\program (x86)\android\android-sdk\tools\
> emulator @android4.1 -memory 896

The above command line will set the amount of memory to 896 MB for the AVD. This bug can be followed here: http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=36080