Trouble getting Android emulator to run in eclipse

Question

I\'m trying to run the SDK Samples on the Emulator in Eclipse 3.5.

Most of the time the AVD Manager hangs when I try to create a new AVD. When I manage to create an

Answer 1

Another rather simple solution to this problem (non-english characters in the AVD's path), is to use the "shortname" of the directories. In my case:

My windows user is "András", so my homedir is C:\Users\András

If you open up a cmd, cd to C:\Users, and issue a "dir /x" command, you will see the "shortnames" of the directories, in my case it is "ANDRS~1".

So you just change the path in the AVD's config file from C:\Users\András\blabla to C:\Users\ANDRS~1\blabla, and voila, it works.