VS 2015 intern Android Emulator not starting (vmWare 10)

Question

I am running VS2015 CTP6 on a freshly installed and updated Windows 8.1 N x64 VM. Hyper-V support is enabled, hypervisor.cpuid.v0 = \"FALSE\"and vhv.enab

Answer 1

The Visual Studio Emulator for Android can't be run nested inside another VM, particularly not a Hyper-V VM, because the emulator itself is a Hyper-V VM (and Hyper-V doesn't support nested VMs). See the last bullet in "Current limitations" at the end of this blog post.