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

My emulators disappeared (according to VS) after CTP6 update although all the images, SDKs etc. are still there.

I sorted it with a repair (control panel, programs, vs => modify.) It took many hours do just let it run.

Double check that the VM you are running on has enough memory(emulator will use a lot- and run Procmon to see what VS does and where it fails. Check event log and turn on logging for the VS instance you are using to look for cues.

"The Visual Studio Emulator for Android can't be run nested inside another VM"- is incorrect. My Windows10 VM is happily serving up the emulator for the different platforms and the same goes for Windows 8.1 & 8.

HyperV doesn't seem to be able to support quite yet (AFAIK) but there are other hypervisors you can use such as VMWare player- and from your config edits in the VM I assume you already knew that :)

I'll provide picture proof later (phone only right now so I'll have to edit typos as well later).