Android emulator and virtualbox cannot run at same time

Question

Whenever I have Virtualbox running, I cannot start an Android emulator image (and vice versa). The error message in the AVD manager is

ioctl(KVM_CREATE_VM) f         


        

Answer 1

I had the same problem on Ubuntu 13.10. Try to remove kvm and kvm_intel kernel modules.

To do this:

1. Stop all emulators.
2. Run command: 'sudo rmmod kvm_intel kvm'

Without these kernel modules Virtualbox and Android emulators can work at the same time.

BTW, I do not know why the modules are loaded.